hermit
意味
- (しばしば,宗教上の理由による)世捨て人,隠者
例文
The hermit lived in a wooden hut.
隠者は木造の小屋に住んでいた。
Look, look! On the branch of the orange tree, there is a blue hermit crab!
見て見て!オレンジの木の小枝に青いヤドカリがいるよ!
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English hermite, heremite, eremite, from Old French eremite, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin eremita, from Ancient Greek ἐρημίτης (erēmítēs, “person of the desert”) from ἐρημία (erēmía, “desert, solitude”), from ἔρημος (érēmos) or ἐρῆμος (erêmos, “uninhabited”) plus -ίτης (-ítēs, “one connected to, a member of”). Doublet of eremite. Displaced native Old English ānsetla.