The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἐρημίτης
- Late Latin · borrowed fromeremita
- English todayeremite
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin eremita, from Ancient Greek ἐρημίτης (erēmítēs), from ἐρῆμος (erêmos, “uninhabited”) + -ίτης (-ítēs). Doublet of hermit.
Words from the same roots
Late Latineremita all →
hermit
Ancient Greekἐρημίτης all →
hermitagehermit
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.