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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HAPAX LEGOMENON

Greek: thing said only once.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HAPAX LEGOMENON

hapax legomenon  [ˈhæpæks ləˈɡɒmɪˌnɒn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HAPAX LEGOMENON

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hapax legomenon is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HAPAX LEGOMENON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hapax legomenon

A hapax legomenon is a word 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 sometimes incorrectly used to describe a word that occurs in just one of an author's works, even though it occurs more than once in that work. Hapax legomenon is a transliteration of Greek ἅπαξ λεγόμενον, meaning " said once". The related terms dis legomenon, tris legomenon, and tetrakis legomenon respectively refer to double, triple, or quadruple occurrences, but are far less commonly used. Hapax legomena are quite common, as predicted by Zipf's law, which states that the frequency of any word in a work is inversely related to its rank in the frequency table. For large corpora, about 40% to 60% of the words are hapax legomena, and another 10% to 15% are dis legomena. Thus, in the Brown Corpus of American English, about half of the 50,000 words are hapax legomena within that corpus.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HAPAX LEGOMENON


actinon
ˈæktɪˌnɒn
Al-Anon
ˈæləˌnɒn
argonon
ˈɑːɡəˌnɒn
hebenon
ˈhɛbəˌnɒn
lanthanon
ˈlænθəˌnɒn
olecranon
əʊˈlɛkrəˌnɒn
organon
ˈɔːɡəˌnɒn
Parthenon
ˈpɑːθəˌnɒn
perispomenon
ˌpɛrɪˈspəʊməˌnɒn
properispomenon
prəʊˌperɪˈspəʊməˌnɒn
xoanon
ˈzəʊəˌnɒn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HAPAX LEGOMENON

hap
hapax
hapax legomena
hapaxanthic
hapaxanthous
haphazard
haphazardly
haphazardness
haphazardry
Haphtarah
Haphtaroth
hapkido
hapless
haplessly
haplessness
haplite
haplitic
haplobiont
haplobiontic
haplographies

WORDS THAT END LIKE HAPAX LEGOMENON

autokinetic phenomenon
epiphenomenon
figure-ground phenomenon
guenon
Krishna Menon
Maintenon
Menon
noumenon
paraleipomenon
paralipomenon
phaenomenon
phenomenon
phi-phenomenon
prolegomenon
Simenon
superphenomenon
tenon
theologoumenon
tusk tenon
xenon

Synonyms and antonyms of hapax legomenon in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hapax legomenon» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HAPAX LEGOMENON

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The translations of hapax legomenon from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hapax legomenon» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

hapax legomenon
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hapax hapax
570 millions of speakers

English

hapax legomenon
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hapax legomenon
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

hapax legomenon
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Hapax legomenon
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hapax legomenon
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হাপক্স লিগম্যানন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hapax hapax
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hapax legomenon
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hapax legomenon
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

hapaxのlegomenon
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

hapax 의 legomenon
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hapax legomenon
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

hapax legomenon
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முட்டாள்தனமானது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हापिक्स लेगोमन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Hapax legomenon
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

hapax
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hapax legomenon
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Hapax legomenon
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

legomenon hapax
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

άπαξ λεγόμενο
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

hapax legomenon
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

hapax legomenon
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hapax legomenon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hapax legomenon

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HAPAX LEGOMENON»

The term «hapax legomenon» is used very little and occupies the 158.428 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HAPAX LEGOMENON» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hapax legomenon» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hapax legomenon» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hapax legomenon

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HAPAX LEGOMENON»

Discover the use of hapax legomenon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hapax legomenon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hapax Legomenon
Poetry. "Ivan Argüelles's work has always affected me like fire pouring from some unmapped stellar helix.
Ivan Argüelles, 1993
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James
In his commentary on the letter of James, Hartin offers a unique approach toward understanding a much-neglected writing. Refusing to read the letter of James through the lens of Paul, Hartin approaches the letter in its own right.
Patrick J. Hartin, Daniel J. Harrington, 2009
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Hapax Legomenon
A hapax legomenon ( / h p ks l m n n/ also / h p ks/ or / he p ks/; pl. hapax legomena; sometimes abbreviated to hapax, pl. hapaxes) is a word which occurs only once within a context, either in the written record of an entire language, in ...
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS, THE SON OF MARY AND THE SAVIOUR ...
:MI The term “drachmé” in W. 8a, b, 9d is Hapax legomenon of the New Testament and has the same root as the term “drax” (I handful). :MI The adverb “ eplmelés” in v. 8e is also Hapax legomenon of the New Testament. 7M1 Note the verb ...
Manfred Diefenbach, 2013
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Abraham and Melchizedek: Scribal Activity of Second Temple ...
12.5.1 Methodology for Describing the Semantics of a hapax legomenon I will start with discussing the hapax legomenon ytir"b.DI-l[;. In general, the meaning of a hapax legomenon in any language should preferably be derived from the ...
Gard Granerød, 2010
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Hapax Legomenon
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, McBrewster John, 2010
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The Satyrica of Petronius: An Intermediate Reader with ...
(colloquial term for a woman, perhaps based on the word for “berry”; hapax legomenon) balatus, balatl'ls, ... or balneum, -i, N: bath, bathing place (2) balniscus, balnisci, M: bath (hapax legomenon) barba, barbae, F: beard barbaria, barbariae, ...
Beth Severy-Hoven, 2014
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Hamlet on a Hill: Semitic and Greek Studies Presented to ...
"lOT(n).13 We may, therefore, conclude that the hapax legomenon "irn'rpo in Qoheleth represents a neologism in Biblical Hebrew, evidently coined during the late biblical period under the influence of Imperial Aramaic.16 2.2 irn-tfia Turning  ...
Martin F. J. Baasten, W. Th. van Peursen, 2003
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Word Frequency Distributions
(This implies that the actual Zipf rank of a hapax legomenon is not of interest, but rather the ranks at which the first and last hapax legomenon are observed.) I will use the notation fz(z,N) for the frequency of a word with Zipf rank z. Thus /- (1, N)  ...
R. Harald Baayen, 2002
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The Second Epistle to the Corinthians: A Commentary on the ...
This excludes £u7repmaT£u) (6:16) and eiaS^xoMCu (6:17), which occur in quotations from the LXX; and jravTOKpdTiop (6:18). a Pauline hapax legomenon (found nine times in Revelation), which is also in an OT citation. 26. "Food" 144.
Murray J. Harris, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HAPAX LEGOMENON»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hapax legomenon is used in the context of the following news items.
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Column 8: Girls and whiskey
Several readers, while impressed with Guy Cox's sod-breaking work on the vindication of the hapax legomenon "egma" (Column 8, Thursday), ... «Brisbane Times, Jun 15»
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Column 8: My pal Cuddles
Ian Close used "hapax" (or more properly "hapax legomenon", from two Ancient Greek words meaning "said once") to refer to "egma", as a ... «Brisbane Times, Jun 15»
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Ephemeral art: 'Something Said Only Once' project comes to Flagstaff
... wherever, whomever they could reach — via LISTSERVS and online music communities to build pieced inspired by hapax legomenon. «Arizona Daily Sun, May 15»
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TV reviews: Game of Thrones, University Challenge, Get the …
I certainly didn't, though Wikipedia subsequently informed me that the word "satyr" was a Shakesperean hapax legomenon, making only a ... «Irish Independent, Apr 15»
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Ted Loveday just won University Challenge with 'Hapax legomenon
He gave the answer 'Hapax legomenon' in record time, if rather cutely mispronounced (not judging – we'd never even heard the term before). «Metro, Apr 15»
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Watch: This guy answers a question on University Challenge so fast …
WTF · University Challenge. We have no idea what 'hapax legomenon' is or what happened here but we're still impressed. Ted Loveday from ... «Entertainment.ie, Apr 15»
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Former Hammersmith schoolboy hailed University Challenge's …
@LatymerHead @edward_latymer thank you so much! Owed "hapax legomenon" (and others) squarely to teachers at @LatymerUpper. «getwestlondon, Apr 15»
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Questions asked of principal contractor in Garrels inquest
The court was told In late 2012/early 2013, after Jason's death, Mr Labuschewski had another company Hapax Legomenon Pty Ltd ... «Mackay Daily Mercury, Mar 15»
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Ueno's Providential Sound Art
Little over a year ago, he was in town [review here] for the world premiere of his Hapax Legomenon. The composer's Talus was reviewed here ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Feb 15»
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The Longest English Words to Ever Appear in Literature
The word is known as a 'hapax legomenon' -- a word or phrase which appears only once in an author's work. This nonce-word was used by ... «Huffington Post, Oct 14»

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