ἔρημος
αἱ δεύτεραί πως φροντίδες σοφώτεραι → somehow second thoughts are wiser, the second thoughts are invariably wiser, second thoughts are best
French (Bailly abrégé)
ος, ον :
poét. ἐρῆμος, η, ον :
I. abs. 1 désert, solitaire ; ἡ ἔρημος (χωρά) HDT ou ἡ ἐρήμη ÉL, au plur. αἱ ἔρημοι ÉL, τὰ ἔρημα, poét. ἐρῆμα, la solitude;
2 en parl. d’êtres vivants ou de choses solitaire, isolé, seul;
II. avec un rég. vide de, dépourvu de, gén. : χώρη ἔρημος πάντων HDT pays dépourvu de tout ; στέγαι ἔρημοι φίλων SOPH toit vide d’amis ; en parl. de pers. ἔρημος συμμάχων HDT sans alliés ; πατρός SOPH qui n’a plus de père ; ἔρημος πρὸς φίλον SOPH sans ami;
III. ἡ ἐρήμη, qqf ἡ ἔρημος, avec ou sans δίκη, γραφή, δίαιτα, procès où l’une des parties fait défaut ; ἐρήμην κατηγορεῖν PLAT accuser par défaut ; ἐρήμῃ δίκῃ θάνατον καταγιγνώσκειν τινός THC condamner qqn à mort par défaut ; ἔρημον διδόναι LYS rendre un jugement par défaut, par contumace.
Étymologie: pê apparenté à ἠρέμα.
English (Strong)
of uncertain affinity; lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, χώρα being implied): desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness.
English (Thayer)
ἔρημον (in classic Greek also ἔρημος, ἐρήμη, ἔρημον, cf. Winer s Grammar, § 11,1; (Buttmann, 25 (23); on its accent cf. Chandler §§ 393,394; Winer's Grammar, 52 (51)));
1. adjective solitary, lonely, desolate, uninhabited: of places, R G L), ἡ ὁδός, leading through a desert, Sept.), see Γάζα, under the end of persons: "deserted by others; deprived of the aid and protection of others, especially of friends, acquaintances, kindred; bereft"; (so often by Greek writers of every age, as Aeschylus Ag. 862; Pers. 734; Aristophanes pax 112; ἔρημος τέ καί ὑπό πάντων καταλειφθείς, Herodian, 2,12, 12 (7 edition, Bekker); of a flock deserted by the shepherd, Homer, Iliad 5,140): γυνή, a woman neglected by her husband, from whom the husband withholds himself, L and WH texts omit); cf. Bleek, Erklär. d. drei ersten Evv. ii., p. 206 (cf. ἡ ἔρημος, namely, χώρα; the Sept. often for מִדְבַּר; a desert, wilderness (Herodotus 3,102): αἱ ἔρημοι, desert places, lonely regions: Winer's Grammar, § 18,1), Winer s RWB under the word Wüste; Furrer in Sehenkel see 680ff; (B. D., see under the words, Smith's Bible Dictionary, Desert and Smith's Bible Dictionary, Wilderness (American edition)).