hermit: [13] Etymologically, a hermit is someone who lives alone in the desert. The word comes ultimately from Greek érēmos ‘solitary’, from which was derived erēmíā ‘desert, solitude’. Many of the early Christian hermits, notably Saint Anthony, lived not only alone but in the desert, so it was appropriate that the term erēmítēs was applied to them. It came into English via medieval Latin herēmīta and Old French hermite.
hermit (n.)
early 12c., "religious recluse," from Old French (h)eremite, from Late Latin ermita, from Greek eremites, literally "person of the desert," from eremia "desert, solitude," from eremos "uninhabited, empty, desolate, bereft," from PIE *ere- (2) "to separate" (cognates: Latin rete "net," Lithuanian retis "sieve"). Transferred sense of "person living in solitude" is from 1799. The hermit crab (1735) was so called for its solitary habits.
例文
1. Research has revealed him to be [ that he was ] a hermit .
調査の結果、彼は元隠士だったことが明らかになった。
2.The cave was inhabited by a hermit .
以前、この洞窟に隠居者が住んでいた。
3.The hermit followed an ascetic life-style.
この隠者は苦行生活を送っている。
4.You 'd have to do that if you was a hermit .「
あなたが隠者なら、あなたもそうしなければなりません」
5.He became a hermit after he was dismissed from office.