hyphen
1 synonym for hyphen, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — The punctuation mark "-", used to join parts of a compound word or show that a word carries on at the start of the next line.
Etymology
A learned borrowing from Late Latin hyphen, this came from Ancient Greek ῠ̔φέν (hŭphén, "in one, as a single word"), a univerbation of ῠ̔φ’ ἕν (hŭph’ hén, "under one"), itself from ῠ̔πο- (hŭpo-, "under") plus ἕν (hén, "one"), the neuter of εἷς (heîs, "one").
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