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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)
- (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)
- Alternative letter-case form of Dis Legomenon