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/hap log"reuh fee/, n.the accidental omission of a letter or letter group that should be repeated in writing, as in Missippi for Mississippi. Cf. dittography.[1885-90; HAPLO- + -GRAPHY]
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haplography
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Haplography — is the act of writing once what should be written twice. For example, the English word idolatry , the worship of idols, comes from the Greek eidololatreia , but one syllable has been lost through haplography. Other examples are endontics for… … Wikipedia
haplography — scribal error of writing only once a letter that should have been written twice; see HAPLO (Cf. haplo ) + GRAPHY (Cf. graphy) … Etymology dictionary
haplography — noun Accidental omission of a letter or letter group that should be repeated in writing, for example, mispell for misspell. In the apparatus of Trounces edition, dittography occurs at line 266, haplography at line 352, and there are numerous… … Wiktionary
haplography — См. aplografìa … Пятиязычный словарь лингвистических терминов
haplography — n. accidental omission of a letter or group of letters that should be repeated … English contemporary dictionary
haplography — [hap lɒgrəfi] noun the inadvertent omission of a repeated letter or letters in writing (e.g. writing philogy for philology) … English new terms dictionary
haplography — hap·log·ra·phy … English syllables
haplography — Пропуск букв, слогов … Вестминстерский словарь теологических терминов
haplography — /hæpˈlɒgrəfi/ (say hap logruhfee) noun the omission of a word, syllable, or letter in writing, where it occurs twice in succession, as in hippotamus for hippopotamus …
haplography — n. accidental omission of letters, words or lines in copying … Dictionary of difficult words
