haplography
(hæˈplɒgrəfɪ)
[f. haplo- + -graphy.]
Single writing; the unintentional writing of a letter or word, or series of letters or words, once, when it should be written twice. (The opposite of dittography.)
| 1888 J. Gow Comp. Classics 55 Haplography or Lipography..is a special and very common case of omission. 1896 W. M. Lindsay Introd. Latin Textual Emend. iii, The commonest kind of omission is that known as Haplography..In Virgil G. iv. 311, for example, Miscentur, tenuemque magis, magis aera carpunt. Some MSS. offer tenuemque magis aera, omitting the second magis. |