| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| hapax legomenon |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ha·pax le·go·me·non |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  h  p ks l -g m -nn |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. ha·pax le·go·me·na (-n)
A word or form that occurs only once in the recorded corpus of a given language. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Greek : hapax, once + legomenon, neuter sing. passive participle of legein, to count, say.
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