hapax legomenons

hapax legomenons

1. (rare) plural of hapax legomenon
   • 1999, Susanna Fahlström, “The Rhetorical-Stylistic Structure”, in Form and Philosophy in Sándor Weöres’ Poetry (Studia Uralica Upsaliensia; 32), Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, →ISBN, →ISSN, chapter 2 (The Forms of Impersonality), section 2 (Metamorphosis: A benső végtelen ‘The Infinite Inside’), page 48:

     The only hapax legomenons of the poem occur in the first and the second lines, madárhiány ‘missing birds’ and nincs-világ ‘non-existing world’ are, in a grammatical sense, realizations of the concept of concentration.

   • 2006 April 3, Alan Crozier, “Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey”, in soc.history.medieval‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 September 2025:

     You are producing a lot of hapax legomenons here, but don't worry, it's perfectly legal. The vowel a often became o in front of a nasal in Old English, so on- is a common variant of an-.

   • 2011, E[lizabeth] Foley, B[eth] Coates, “Break Time”, in Homework for Grown-ups Quiz Book: Fiendishly Fun Questions to Test Your Old-school Knowledge, London: Square Peg, Random House, →ISBN, pages 185–186:

     And while many people, we are sure, often use the other two in their everyday speech, their non-dictionary status means they are what kind of words? a) Neologisms b) Homonyms c) Hapax legomenons d) None of the above

   • 2012 April 1, Aysu Ata, “Hapax in Rylands Manuscript Interlinear Translation of Qoran into Turkic”, in Türkoloji Dergisi [Journal of Turkology]‎^[2], volume 19, number 1 (overall work in Turkish), Ankara: Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi [Ankara University Faculty of Language and History – Geography], →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 6 August 2024, pages 2–3:

     The subject of this paper covers the nonce words, in other words hapaxes (or hapax legomenons) encountered in Rylands manuscript. […] Key words: Rylands manuscript interlinear translation of Qoran into Turkic, hapax legomenons, […]

   • 2016 June 30, Graham Diggins, A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews. […], [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, Hebrews 12:4 section and appendix:

     Resisting and striving are both hapax legomenons. […] Hebrews has 124 instances of hapax legomenons, more than any other NT [New Testament] book based on the number of Greek words used.

   • 2018, Octavia-Maria Șulea, Liviu P. Dinu, Bogdan Dumitru, “Full Inflection Learning Using Deep Neural Networks”, in Alexander Gelbukh, editor, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 19th International Conference, CICLing 2018 […] (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 13396), part I, Cham: Springer, published 2023, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 408:

     Knowing what form to use when learning the representation of a word in an NLP pipeline can be a challenge for languages with rich inflectional morphology [6], where certain inflected forms may be so rare within available corpora that they manifest as hapax legomenons while their corresponding uninflected form might be quite common.

   • 2023, Iryna Farion, “New Anglicisms in the Ukrainian Language: Social Internet Communication Context”, in Natalia Kryvinska, Michal Greguš, Solomiia Fedushko, editors, Developments in Information and Knowledge Management Systems for Business Applications (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control; 466), volume 6, Cham: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 145:

     In particular, Chlebowski [19], having studied 435 lexical units of anglicisms and their derivatives on the pages of the journal ‘Mladá fronta Dnes’ and analyzed the frequency of their use, thematically divided them into: sports, music and subculture, transport and construction, economy and trade, living. Special attention is paid to that percentage analysis of hapax legomenons.