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hapax legomenon
(linguistics) A word occurring only once in a given corpus.
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hapax
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There is a lovely technical term for a word that appears once in a body of text: a hapax legomenon (plural: hapax legomena), Greek for “once said.” The term comes from philology, the study of old texts.
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