hapax legomenon

The name Tastris is a hapax legomenon, recorded only once in all of history.

A hapax legomenon is a word that is only written one time, in one book, or many books.

The use of suffragatorius in the Commentariolum is a hapax legomenon.

Honorificabilitudinitatibus is a hapax legomenon of Shakespeare's works.

The word arepo is a hapax legomenon, appearing nowhere else in Latin literature.

Discerning the meaning of "gharāniq" is difficult as it is a hapax legomenon.

This qualifies as what biblical exegetes call a hapax legomenon, the only known use in print, which makes it difficult to define.

Compare "hapax legomenon".

Ealuscerwen is an Old English hapax legomenon found in Beowulf (verse 769).

(a reference to Hapax legomenon.)

As it appears only once in Shakespeare's works, it is a hapax legomenon in the Shakespeare canon.

The saga is the only known occurrence of the word ætternisstapi förekommer making it a hapax legomenon.

The entire Song of Songs is a hapax legomenon of its own, the Blochs point out.

The problem is not primarily that is a hapax legomenon, for there can be little uncertainty that it means "something thin" (from, "crush" ).

Note that hapax legomenon refers to a word's appearance in a body of text and to neither its origin nor its prevalence in speech.

The word is almost a hapax legomenon, occurring only in Luke and Matthew's versions of the Lord's Prayer.

The word orcné, attested in the plural word orcnéas, is a hapax legomenon in the poem Beowulf.

This "is hardly an error that we could consider a hapax legomenon," says Bryan Garner, author of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage.

The term translated as 'oxgoad' is a biblical hapax legomenon, the translation into English being made on the basis of the Septuagint's translation into Greek.

Hapax legomenon is a Greek term for words that occur only once in a text, and the song has a higher proportion of them than any other book of the Bible.

This group disbanded in 1966 and in 1967, he and four other boys formed the hard rock band Hapax Legomenon which was disbanded in the summer of 1970.

The term is a hapax legomenon, known only from a passage in Ammianus, and it has been suggested that it is a misreading of "arcani", the secret ones.

The word is a hapax legomenon, occurring only in the Oneirocritica of Artemidorus, a Greek work on dream interpretation that discusses the symbolism of various gladiator types.

An exhaustive search of databases and legal tomes reveals that we have here what the Greeks called a hapax legomenon - a word of which only one use is recorded in all literature.

For example the verb authentein, "to have authority", a hapax legomenon in the New Testament, is documented three times in relation to "bookkeepers having authority" in P.Fam.