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▪ I. hyphen, n.|ˈhaɪfən|
[a. late L. hyphen, a. late Gr. ἡ ὑϕέν, subst. use of adv. ὑϕέν together, in one, f. ὑϕ', ὑπό under + ἕν one.
The hyphen of the Greek grammarians was the sign ˘, placed under a compound, to indicate that it was not to be read as two words: in this sense the word is sometimes used technically by Palæographers.]
1. A short dash or line (-) used to connect two words together as a compound; also, to join the separated syllables of a word, as at the end of a line; or to divide a word into parts for etymological or other purposes.
[1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 41 He would have us to reade these two last words in one, by way of ὑϕὲν, thus.] c1620A. Hume Brit. Tongue (1865) 23 Hyphen is, as it wer, a band uniting whol wordes joined in composition; as, a hand-maed [etc.]. 1636B. Jonson Discov., Bellum Scribent., What a sight it is, to see writers committed together by the ears, for ceremonies, syllables, points, colons, commas, hyphens, and the like? 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Hyphen..is used, either when two words are joyned together, for the more conciseness of expression, as Self-interest; or when one part of a word concludes the former Line, and the one begins the next. 1881Mason Eng. Gram. §299 When the two elements of the compound are only partially blended, a hyphen is put between them.
b. Applied to the ‘plus’ sign (+).
1850Daubeny Atomic The. iii. (ed. 2) 105 In Berzelius's method..to express compound salts, the symbols for each were brought together by means of an hyphen +.
2. transf.
a. A short pause between two syllables in speaking.
1868Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy i. 15 Whistles low notes or seems to thrum his lute As a mere hyphen 'twixt two syllables Of any steadier man. 1872C. King Mountain. Sierra Nev. x. 208 With hyphens of silence between each two syllables.
b. A small connecting link.
1868G. Duff Pol. Surv. 169 It was a bridge for migrations. It was a hyphen, connecting different races. 1881Daily Tel. 21 June 6/8 M. de Lesseps, who is the sworn foe of all such geographical hyphens [isthmuses].
▪ II. hyphen, v.|ˈhaɪfən|
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To join by a hyphen; to write (a compound) with a hyphen.
1814W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXIV. 306 The Englishman imagines all words connected by apposition to be hyphened together, and inflects them as a single word. 1884New Eng. Dict. Introd. 23 Many specialized combinations..are often not even hyphened. 1891S. Mostyn Curatica 128 The Joneses, when their father was induced to move from Shepherd's Bush to Kensington, showed their gratitude to their mother by hyphening her name with their own..‘The Misses Robinson-Jones’. 1894Sunday Sch. Times (Philad.) 3 Feb., On the principle that words should not be hyphened unless absolutely necessary. |