different between hermit vs hermitary

English

Alternative forms

• eremite, heremit, heremite (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English hermite, heremite, eremite, from Old French eremite, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin eremita, from Ancient Greek ???????? (er?mít?s, “person of the desert”) from ?????? (er?mía, “desert, solitude”), from ?????? (ér?mos) or ?????? (erêmos, “uninhabited”) plus -???? (-ít?s, “one connected to, a member of”). Displaced native Old English ?nsetla.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h?m?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??m?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m?t
• Hyphenation: her?mit

Noun

hermit (plural hermits)

1. A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite.

   Synonyms: anchorite, eremite

2. A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:recluse

3. A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts.
4. A hermit crab.
   • 2016, Vicki Judah, Kathy Nuttall, Exotic Animal Care and Management (page 279)

     Because hermits are decapods and do not live within their own shells, they are not considered to be true crabs.

5. A hummingbird in the subfamily Phaethornithinae.

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See also

• monachos
• monk

Anagrams

• mither

English

Etymology

Compare Latin hermitorium, eremitorium.

Noun

hermitary (plural hermitaries)

1. A cell annexed to an abbey, for the use of a hermit.
   • March 3 1646, James Howell, "To Sir K. D. at Rome" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ

     Chappels , Monasteries , Hermitaries , Nunneries , and other Religious Houses were us'd lo in the time of old King Henry.}}

References

hermitary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.