MA#7.23_HAPAX > Repetitions Island
Gertjan van Gennip | Lot Meijers
Snejanka Mihaylova | Piersandra Di Matteo
BAROKTHEGREAT | Lorenzo Senni
Hapax by Mont Analogue will appear 9th of July 2010 7h 45 in Repetition Island curated by Raimundas Malasauskas, Centre Pompidou, Paris
www.repetition-island.com
A hapax legomenon (pl. hapax legomena, sometimes abbreviated to hapaxes) is a word which occurs only once in either the written record of a language, the works of an author, or in a single text. While technically incorrect, the term is also sometimes used of a word that occurs in only one of an author's works, even though it occurs more than once in that work. Hapax legomenon is a direct transliteration from the Greek form ἅπαξ λεγόμενον, meaning "[something] said [only] once".
The term hapax legomenon refers to a word's appearance in a body of text, not to its origins, nor to its prevalence in speech. It thus differs from a nonce word, which may never be recorded, or may find currency and be recorded widely, or may appear several times in the work which coins it, and so on.
The term hapax legomenon refers to a word's appearance in a body of text, not to its origins, nor to its prevalence in speech. It thus differs from a nonce word, which may never be recorded, or may find currency and be recorded widely, or may appear several times in the work which coins it, and so on.