ἔρημα (erema)

ἔρημα is an Ancient Greek form of ἐρῆμος, meaning “deserted, empty; desert”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 67 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.17.1: … το ἐς τὸ ἄστυ, ὀλίγοις μέν τισιν ὑπῆρχον οἰκήσεις καὶ παρὰ φίλων τινὰς ἢ οἰκείων καταφυγή, οἱ δὲ πολλοὶ τά τε ἐρῆμα τῆς πόλεως ᾤκησαν καὶ τὰ ἱερὰ καὶ τὰ ἡρῷα πάντα πλὴν τῆς ἀκροπόλεως καὶ τοῦ Ἐλευσινίου καὶ εἴ τι ἄλλο βεβαίως …

Euripides, Hecuba 1076: ποῖ πᾷ φέρομαι τέκνʼ ἔρημα λιπὼν

Euripides, Suppliants 835: ἔρημά σʼ ἁ πολύστονος Οἰδιπόδα

All forms of ἐρῆμος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.