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English
Pronunciation
Noun
hapax legomena
- plural of hapax legomenon
Indonesian
Etymology
Internationalism, Ancient Greek ἅπαξ λεγόμενον (hápax legómenon, “(something) said only once”), from ἅπαξ (hápax, “once”) and λεγόμενον (legómenon), passive participle of λέγω (légō, “say”).
Noun
hapax legomena (plural hapax-hapax legomena)
- (linguistics) hapax legomenon: a word occurring only once in a given corpus
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