HAPAX LEGOMENA — (Gr. once said ), words which are only once recorded in a certain kind of literature. Since the interest in Middle Hebrew lexicography arose comparatively late, Middle Hebrew texts are frequently not well established philologically and new texts… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Hapax legomena — Hapax Un hapax (le h est muet) ou apax désigne généralement un mot qui n a qu une seule occurrence dans la littérature. Le terme hapax est un néologisme dû à John Trapp en 1654 (Annotations upon the Old and New Testament), créé à partir du grec… … Wikipédia en Français
hapax legomenon — [hā′paks΄ li gäm′ə nän΄] n. pl. hapax legomena [hā′paks΄ li gäm′ənä΄, hā′paks΄ li gäm′ənə] [Gr, (something) said only once] a word or phrase occurring only once in a text or other written record … English World dictionary
Hapax legomenon — Rank frequency plot for words in the novel Moby Dick. About 44% of the distinct set of words in this novel, such as matrimonial , occur only once, and so are hapax legomena (red). About 17%, such as dexterity , are dis legomena (blue). Zipf s law … Wikipedia
Hapax legomenon — Mit Hapax legomenon (Plural: Hapax legomena, von altgr. ἅπαξ hápax „einmal, einmalig“; λεγόμενον legómenon „das Gesagte“, eigentlich Präsens, also „das gesagt werdende“) wird ein Wort bezeichnet, das nur an einer einzigen Stelle in einem… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Hapax — Mit Hapax legomenon (Plural: Hapax legomena, von griech. ἅπαξ hápax einmal, einmalig ; λεγόμενον legómenon das Gesagte , eigentlich Präsens, also „das gesagt werdende“) wird ein Wort bezeichnet, das nur an einer einzigen Stelle in einem gegebenen … Deutsch Wikipedia
hapax legomenon — noun /ˌhæpæks lɛˈɡɒmɛnɒn/ A word occurring only once in a given corpus. There is a lovely technical term for a word that appears once in a body of text: a hapax legomenon (plural: hapax legomena), Greek for “once said.” The term comes from… … Wiktionary
hapax legomenon — /hap aks li gom euh non , hay paks/, pl. hapax legomena /hap aks li gom euh neuh, hay paks/. a word or phrase that appears only once in a manuscript, document, or particular area of literature. [1880 85; < Gk hápax legómenon (thing) once said] *… … Universalium
hapax legomenon — [ˌhapaks lɪ gɒmɪnɒn] noun (plural hapax legomena mɪnə) a term of which only one instance of use is recorded. Origin C17: Gk, a thing said once , from hapax once and the passive participle of legein to say … English new terms dictionary
hapax legomenon — noun (plural hapax legomena) Etymology: Greek, something said only once Date: 1882 a word or form occurring only once in a document or corpus … New Collegiate Dictionary
