Ancient Greek

Adverb

ἅπαξ • ‎(hápax)

1. once, one time, only once
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 12.22

     σχέτλιοι, οἳ ζώοντες ὑπήλθετε δῶμ' Ἀΐδαο,
     δισθανέες, ὅτε τ' ἄλλοι ἅπαξ θνήσκουσ' ἄνθρωποι.

     You reckless ones, who entered Hades' home while living,
     dying twice, when other men only die once!

Derived terms

• ἅπαξ λεγόμενον ‎(hápax legómenon)

References

• ἅπαξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἅπαξ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἅπαξ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἅπαξ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἅπαξ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἅπαξ» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G530”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • once idem, page 573.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press