hapax legomenon

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌhæ.pæks ləˈɡɒ.məˌnɒn/
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• General-American: /ˌhæ.pæks ləˈɡɑ.məˌnɑn/
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• rhymes with -ɒmənɒn
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From Ancient Greek ἅπαξ λεγόμενον (hápax legómenon, “(something) said only once”), from ἅπαξ (hápax, “once”) and λεγόμενον (legómenon), passive participle of λέγω (légō, “say”).

34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: لَفْظ فَرِيد (lafẓ farīd) — word occurring only once
• Arabic: كَلِمَة وَحِيدَة — word occurring only once
• Arabic: لَفْظَة مُفْرَدَة — word occurring only once
• Arabic: شَاهِد أُحَادِيّ (šāhid ʔuḥādiyy) — word occurring only once
• Catalan: hàpax — word occurring only once
• Catalan: hàpax legòmenon — word occurring only once
• Chinese Mandarin: 孤詞 /孤词 — word occurring only once
• Czech: hapax legomenon — word occurring only once
• Dutch: hapax legomenon — word occurring only once
• Dutch: hapax — word occurring only once
• Esperanto: hapakso — word occurring only once
• Finnish: hapax legomenon — word occurring only once
• French: hapax legomenon — word occurring only once
• French: hapax — word occurring only once
• Galician: hapax legomenon — word occurring only once
• German: Hapaxlegomenon — word occurring only once
• German: Hapax Legomenon — word occurring only once
• German: Hapax legomenon — word occurring only once
• German: hapax Legomenon — word occurring only once
• German: hapax legomenon — word occurring only once
• Greek: άπαξ λεγόμενο (ápax legómeno) — word occurring only once
• Hebrew: מִלָּה יְחִידָאִית (milá yeḥidaít) — word occurring only once
• Hungarian: hapax legomenon — word occurring only once
• Indonesian: hapax legomena — word occurring only once
• Persian: تکبار واژه (takbâr vâže) — word occurring only once
• Polish: hapaks legomenon — word occurring only once
• Portuguese: hápax — word occurring only once
• Russian: гапакс (gapaks) — word occurring only once
• Serbo-Croatian: jednokratnica — word occurring only once
• Slovak: hapax legomenon — word occurring only once
• Spanish: legomena hápax — word occurring only once
• Spanish: hápax legómenon — word occurring only once
• Swedish: hapax legomenon — word occurring only once
• Swedish: hapax — word occurring only once