dis legomenon
See also: Dis Legomenon
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]dis legomenon (plural dis legomena)
- (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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[edit]German
[edit]Noun
[edit]dis legomenon n (strong, genitive dis legomenon, plural dis legomena)
- Alternative letter-case form of Dis Legomenon
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