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Re:Hapax legomenon by sirodoht on Thursday March 06, 2014 @07:39AM (#7353301)
The reason is that hapax means "one time" in Greek, while legomenon means "that which is said". So, the noun is legomenon, which will be the word in plural.

A (not very good) analogy is "visible phenomenon". You would not say "visibles phenomenon", but "visible phenomena".

Re:Hapax legomenon by JacobAldridge on Thursday March 06, 2014 @07:47AM (#7353328)
Yes - for some reason I instinctively grouped it with culs-de-sac and mothers-in-law.