dis legomenon

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English

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek δίς λεγόμενον (dís legómenon, (something) said only twice), from δίς (dís, twice, doubly, again) and λεγόμενον (legómenon), passive participle of λέγω (légō).

Noun

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dis legomenon (plural dis legomena)

  1. (linguistics) A word that occurs only twice in a given corpus.
    • 2017 January, Ellie Emslie Stevens, “Eschatological Inversions in Isaiah and Dante: From Malicious to Redemptive Violence”, in Annali d'Italianistica:
      Beyond [violenza's] dis legomenon (two appearances) in Inferno 11, and its hapax legomenon ... in Inferno 12 and 29, the word ... seems to have exhausted its impact[.]
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German

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Noun

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dis legomenon n (strong, genitive dis legomenon, plural dis legomena)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Dis Legomenon