hyphen
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Noun — The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line.
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin hyphen, from Ancient Greek ῠ̔φέν (hŭphén, “in one, as a single word”), univerbation of ῠ̔φ’ ἕν (hŭph’ hén, “under one”), from ῠ̔πο- (hŭpo-, “under”) + ἕν (hén, “one”), neuter of εἷς (heîs, “one”).
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