barrenness
From LSJ
τί ἦ μοι ταῦτα περὶ δρῦν ἢ περὶ πέτρην → but what is this to me, about an oak or a rock | but what are these things about a tree or a rock to me | why all this about trees and rocks | why all this about what we have nothing to do with | but why am I off on this tangent
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
desolation: P. and V. ἐρημία, ἡ.
of females: P. ἀφορία, ἡ, ὀλιγογονία, ἡ, V. ἀκαρπία, ἡ.
childlessness: P. and V. ἀπαιδία, ἡ, ἀτεκνία, ἡ.
cursed with barrenness (of land: V. ἀκάρπως ἐφθαρμένος (Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 254).
uselessness: P. ἀχρηστία. ἡ.
