单词 | hapax legomenon |
释义 | hapax legomenonn. Chiefly in linguistic and literary studies: a word or word form which is recorded only once in a text, in the work of a particular author, or in a body of literature.The term has in the past been particularly associated with biblical commentary. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > word with only one recorded occurrence hapax legomenon1692 hapax1894 1654 J. Trapp Comm. Minor Prophets (Zech. xiv. 20) 605 'Tis ἄπαξ λεγόμενον read only here: and hence this variety of interpretations.] 1692 J. Dunton Young-students-libr. 242/1 There are many words but once used in Scripture, especially in such a sence, and are called the Apax legomena. 1774 J. Rhudde Ribband (ed. 3) (Annotations section) The word ‘Ribband’, is of that order, called, hapax legomenon, [h.e. [sic] a word, found occurring but once] in respect, we mean, of our English Bible. 1838 W. Jenks Guide to Study Bible i. ii. 6/3 in Suppl. to Comprehensive Commentary The ancient versions..must be regarded as having furnished us with the most important and valuable of all the subsidiary means, by which to ascertain the sense in cases of hapax legomena. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. xi. 236 The number of the hapax legomena is remarkable, and some of them are full of picturesqueness. 1931 Eng. Stud. 13 124 An article that should certainly find a place in a miscellany in honour of the brave defender of Wulfila as a translator: Collitz on two hapax legomena in Wulfila's translation. 1957 C. Brooke-Rose Lang. of Love iv. 34 She saw herself go through the minutiæ of scansion, dialect forms, emendation, haplography, hapax legomena and anacolutha in Beowulf. 1997 S. B. Morrow Names of Things 26 Commager taught us about the hapax legomenon, the word that is used only once, that is created for that occasion only. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1692 |
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