hapax legomenon

短语

[希]只用过一次的字句, 罕用语

发音

UK /ˌhæ.pæks ləˈɡɒ.məˌnɒn/
US /ˌhæ.pæks ləˈɡɑ.məˌnɑn/

词形变化

hapax legomena 复数 hapax legomena hapax legomenons hapax legomenons 复数

别名

hapax

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A word occurring only once in a given corpus.

    孤词

    语言学

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

nonce word

上位词 1

word

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-der. Ancient Greek ᾰ̔́πᾰξ (hắpăx) Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der. Proto-Indo-European *léǵ-e-ti Proto-Hellenic *légō Ancient Greek λεγόμενον (legómenon) Ancient Greek ᾰ̔́πᾰξ λεγόμενον (hắpăx legómenon)der. English hapax legomenon From Ancient Greek ἅπαξ λεγόμενον (hápax legómenon, “(something) said only once”), from ἅπαξ (hápax, “once”) and λεγόμενον (legómenon), passive participle of λέγω (légō, “say”).

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