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  Hapax legomenon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A hapax legomenon (pl. hapax legomena, though sometimes called hapaxes for short) is a word that occurs only once in a given body of text.
Flother, a synonym for "snowflake", is a hapax legomenon of written English pre-1900 found in a manuscript from around 1275.
The term hapax legomenon refers to a word's appearance in a body of text, not to its origins or prevalence in speech.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hapax   (314 words)

  
 The Mavens' Word of the Day
A hapax legomenon is a word, phrase, grammatical form, or other usage that occurs only once in the written record of a language, in a particular text, or in the works of a single author.
While it may seem as if a hapax legomenon (often shortened to hapax) is something to be ignored--how important can it be if there's only one example?--the very fact that it exists is valuable, particularly for languages with sparse surviving records.
Hapax legomenon (plural hapax legomena) is from the Greek hápax legómenon, literally '(a thing) once said', from hápax 'once' and legómenon, the neuter singular passive participle of légein 'to say'.
www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19980723   (360 words)

  
 HAPAX LEGOMENA AS A PLATFORM FOR TEXT ALIGNMENT
Hapax legomena, originally understood as single occurrences of a lexeme in a language and presently interpreted as single occurrences of a word form in a text, were discussed by rev. A.
hapaxes that aren't translation equivalents but are used within a reasonable distance (in the same sentence in our case) from each other in the original version and translation.
a hapax in the source sentence had a hapax in a corresponding target sentence, 12 hapaxes had correspondences in the two nearest sentences, while the rest of them (190 in English and 55 in Lithuanian) were translated as non-hapaxes.
donelaitis.vdu.lt /publikacijos/hapax.htm   (2516 words)

  
 Hapax legomenon -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A hapax legomenon (pl. hapax legomena, though sometimes called hapaxes for short) is a (A unit of language that native speakers can identify) word that occurs only once in a given body of text.
Flother, a synonym for "snowflake", is a hapax legomenon of written (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English pre-1900 found in a manuscript from around 1275.
The term is popular among (The sacred writings of the Christian religions) Bible scholars, who take the number of hapaxes in a putative author's corpus as an indication of his vocabulary and thereby argue for or against attribution.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/hapax_legomenon.htm   (344 words)

  
 Merriam-Webster Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Hapax legomenon—which literally means "something said only once" in Greek—names a word or form which occurs once and only once in a document or corpus.
Interpreting hapax legomena has long been a job for biblical scholars, but gamesters in cyberspace have come up with a modern twist.
In a version of the hapax legomena game known as googlewhacking, the goal is to find one and only one instance (or hit) of two or more common English words on a single web page.
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 Language Log: Out with Under God
First, whether or not the phrase is a hapax legomenon doesn't really matter.
In philology a hapax legomenon is almost always a word and is a problem because a single usage doesn't generally give us enough information to figure out what it means.
Phrases are rarely considered hapax legomena even if they are in fact unique because so long as we know their components and the construction is a familiar one, we can figure out what the phrase means.
itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/001065.html   (379 words)

  
 Hapax legomenon - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Hapax legomenon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Hapax legomenon - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Hapax legomenon.
Here you will find more informations about Hapax legomenon.
The orginal Hapax legomenon article can be editet
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Hapax-legomenon.html   (326 words)

  
 Cook, The Translator(s) of the Septuagint of Proverbs
This is a hapax legomenon that appears in none of the sources I studied, except Proverbs.
Nevertheless, this large number of neologisms, together with the hapax legomena, witness to the proficiency of the person(s) responsible for the translation of Proverbs.
He makes abundant use of hapax legomena and neologisms, a clear sign of his proficiency in the Greek culture, at least as far as the form is concerned.
rosetta.reltech.org /TC/vol07/Cook2002.html   (7757 words)

  
 Freshman English Chant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
I was one of the hooded chanters, I was there, and anyhow, the words aren't hapax legomena, they are from the Church of Geomancer vulgate.
*hapax legomenon (HAY-paks li-GOM-uh-non) noun, plural hapax legomena ; A word or form that has only one recorded use.
The Latin version of the Bible made by Saint Jerome at the end of the 4th century.
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 Hapax Legomenon
hapax legomenon (HAY-paks li-GOM-uh-non) noun, plural hapax legomena
A word or form that has only one recorded use.
This qualifies as what is called a hapax legomenon, the only known use in print,
www.freerangefarm.com /homework4/hapax.htm   (74 words)

  
 Hapax Legomenon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
For those not in the know, Hapax Legomenon is at the pinnacle of Paragon City's finest heroes.
Maybe not in sheer power or length of time serving justice, but ever since the day she saved me from a Hellion thug, I knew I'd been wrong about those tights, and she's what I call a real hero...
Please don't think I'm just a pathetic fanboy, I'm actually a respected PCPD cop with years of experience walking aimlessly around these mean streets.
www.hapaxlegomenon.net   (147 words)

  
 Logomacy » Blog Archive » Hapax Legomenon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A hapax legomenon is a word or phrase that occurs only once in a given corpus (usually an entire language, but sometimes in a particular text, or the work of a particular author).
They are often found in dead languages, but my friend badger may have found one in Spanish: parracial
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 Hapax Legomenon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The ninth installment in Ivan Arguelles' long and surreal poem Pantograph is the eighty-eight-page Hapax Legomenon, a book it took Arguelles only ten days to complete.
Eighty-eight pages of poetry in ten days leads to one of two conclusions: either the stuff blows goat, or the poet is of a singular construction, the kind of person who can spin out, well, eighty-eight pages of at least salable writing in ten days.
Get out of it what you will, but allow the syllables to flow over you like the waterfall they are, and you will have extracted the true essence of the work.
www.jp41.dial.pipex.com /R744.HTML   (269 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Epistles to Timothy and Titus
The proportion of hapax legomena in the Pastorals is large, but when compared with Phil., it is not larger than that between II Cor, and II Thess.
He has found the average number of hapax legomena per page of Irving's one-volume edition of Shakespeare's plays to be as follows: "Love's Labour Lost" 7.6, "Comedy of Errors" 4.5, "Two Gentlemen of Verona" 3.4, "Romeo and Juliet" 5.7, "Henry VI, pt.
The totals of hapax legomena for some of the plays are: "Julius Cæsar" 93, "Comedy of Errors" 88, "Macbeth" 245, "Othello" 264, "King Lear" 358, "Cymbeline" 252, "Hamlet" 426, "The Merchant of Venice" 148.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14727b.htm   (6710 words)

  
 H is for hapax legomenon (I'm a lasagna boy!)
H is for hapax legomenon (I'm a lasagna boy!)
Amazon now produces a concordance for each book for which it has digitized content; it also has a short list of "statistically improbable phrases", which amount to hapax legomena.
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 Find in a Library: Four indices of the Homeric hapax legomena : together with statistical data
Find in a Library: Four indices of the Homeric hapax legomena : together with statistical data
Four indices of the Homeric hapax legomena : together with statistical data
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worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/201d093507a7aef5a19afeb4da09e526.html   (75 words)

  
 Meyssan and Jonny Moped at Fibbers!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
On Wednesday 26th March 2003, Jonny Moped and Meyssan entered heat 7 of the 'Battle of the bands' competition.
Meyssan were first on the bill, opening with the fantastic Hapax Legomena, a new song.
They closed the set with the tool-like 'Hapax Legomenon' a song which infact went on for 8 minutes!
www.freewebs.com /spinkfest_festival/fibbers-march03.html   (238 words)

  
 Hapax legomenon, noun: "A word or form that occurs only once in the recorded corpus of a given language" ...
Hapax legomenon, noun: "A word or form that occurs only once in the recorded corpus of a given language" (kottke.org)
Hapax legomenon, noun: "A word or form that occurs only once in the recorded corpus of a given language".
If you've reached this point by accident, I suggest panic.
www.kottke.org /remainder/05/01/7245.html   (87 words)

  
 Hapax Legomenon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A hapax legomenon is the archaelogical translator's curse, a word or phrase which occurs only once in a text.
Such words are notoriously difficult to interpret, since in many cases, a word's meaning in an unknown language can best be determined by examining its context.
You can go to the wordplay home page.
www.csit.fsu.edu /~burkardt/fun/wordplay/hapax_legomenon.html   (300 words)

  
 99 Erotic Notions: Free Erotic Story Collection by Hapax Legomenon
99 Erotic Notions: Free Erotic Story Collection by Hapax Legomenon
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 One-word Trivia!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
well, they were referred to as "a riverside people of fishers" in the appendix, but that is not to whom my hapax legomenon refers...
There's no way to be sure any of these is a hapax.
I have to doubt that this is a hapax.
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 The Avesta : A Lexico-Statistical Analysis (Direct And Reverse Indexes, Hapax Legomenon And Frequency Counts)
The Avesta : A Lexico-Statistical Analysis (Direct And Reverse Indexes, Hapax Legomenon And Frequency Counts)
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