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Hapax legomenon

In corpus linguistics, a hapax legomenon (/ˈhæpəks lɪˈɡɒmɪnɒn/ also /ˈhæpæks/ or /ˈheɪpæks/; pl. hapax legomena; sometimes abbreviated to hapax, plural hapaxes) is a word or an expression that occurs only once within a context: either in the written record of an entire language, in the works of an author, or in a single text. The term is also sometimes…

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Hapax legomenon

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related to English · 29
Hapax legomenon → Bram Stoker's Dracula, Chaucer's The Reeve's Tale, Christmas Tree, Count, Dickens's, English, Erasmus' AdagiaIndexy, Exeter Book, Flother, For, Hell, Honorificabilitudinitatibus, If, Indexy, It, Lawrence, Lewis Carroll, Manticratic, Nortelrye, Old English
related to Ancient Greek · 23
Hapax legomenon → According, Clyde Pharr, English, Epiousion, Gospel, Greek, Greek New Testament, Iliad, It, Law, Lex, Lord's Prayer, Luke, Mark, Matthew, New Testament, Odyssey, Others, Pergamenorum, Pergamon
related to In popular culture · 22
Hapax legomenon → Britain, Caius, Gonville, Google, Greek, Hapax, Hapax Legomena, Hapax Legomena VII, Hollis Frampton, In, Jeremy Paxman, Meaning, Michael Stevens, NetHack, Nostalgia, Once, Oxford English Dictionary, Special Effects, Ted Loveday, The
related to Italian · 16
Hapax legomenon → Commedia, Dante's Divina Commedia, Italian, June, Leopardi's Zibaldone, Mandelbaum, Paradiso, Passing, Purgatorio XI, Purgatorio XXXIII, Ramogna, Some, The, Trasumanar, Ultrafilosofia, Zibaldone
related to Chinese and Japanese · 10
Hapax legomenon → AD, BC, Chinese, Classic, Classical Chinese, For, Guo Pu, Japanese, Known, Poetry
related to Spanish · 9
Hapax legomenon → African Arab, Atafea, Blasco, Esi, Garay, Latin, Luna's Virtuosas, Modern, The
related to Slavic · 7
Hapax legomenon → According, Andrey Zaliznyak, Medieval Russian, Novgorod, The, Various, Vytol
related to German · 4
Hapax legomenon → Etymology, Muspilli, Old High German, The
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Hapax legomenon → transliteration of Greek ἅπαξ λεγόμενον

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hapax legomena word legomenon meaning hebrew occurs appears corpus words text also greek found one used english author sometimes works

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Hapax legomenonis atransliteration of Greek ἅπαξ λεγόμενον0.90text
Hapax legomenonrelated to Ancient GreekAccording0.60section
Hapax legomenonrelated to Ancient GreekClyde Pharr0.60section
Hapax legomenonrelated to Ancient GreekIliad0.60section
Hapax legomenonrelated to Ancient GreekOdyssey0.60section
Hapax legomenonrelated to Ancient GreekOthers0.60section
Hapax legomenonrelated to Ancient GreekGreek0.60section
Hapax legomenonrelated to Ancient GreekThe Greek New Testament0.60section
Hapax legomenonrelated to Ancient GreekNew Testament0.60section
Hapax legomenonrelated to Ancient GreekPeter0.60section
Hapax legomenonrelated to Ancient GreekEpiousion0.60section
Hapax legomenonrelated to Ancient GreekEnglish0.60section

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