dis legomenon

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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δίς λεγόμενον (dís legómenon, (something) said only twice), from δίς (dís, twice, doubly, again) and λεγόμενον (legómenon), passive participle of λέγω (légō).

Noun

dis legomenon (plural dis legomena)

  1. (linguistics) A word that occurs only twice in a given corpus.
    • 2017 January, Ellie Emslie Stevens, “Eschatological Inversions in Isaiah and Dante: From Malicious to Redemptive Violence”, in Annali d'Italianistica:
      Beyond [violenza's] dis legomenon (two appearances) in Inferno 11, and its hapax legomenon ... in Inferno 12 and 29, the word ... seems to have exhausted its impact[.]

German

Noun

dis legomenon n (strong, genitive dis legomenon, plural dis legomena)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Dis Legomenon