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Hyphenation for “peripatetics”

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What is the correct hyphenation for “peripatetics”? The purpose of hyphenation is to separate a word such as "peripatetics" because otherwise it would be too long and would no longer fit on one line. This separation not only saves space it improves the visually flow of the text. This word separation exists in most languages. In English, the word separation of “peripatetics” is based on the speech syllables. The separating syllable in linguistics is therefore the smallest group of sounds in the natural flow of speech. As a separator, the classic hyphen is usually used: „peripatetics“ ⟶ „peri-patet-ics“.

Hyphens are occasionally used to denote syllabification, as in syl-la-bi-fi-ca-tion. Various British and North American dictionaries use an interpunct, sometimes called a "middle dot" or "hyphenation point", for this purpose, as in syl·la·bi·fi·ca·tion. This allows the hyphen to be reserved only for places where a hard hyphen is intended (for example, self-con·scious, un·self-con·scious, long-stand·ing). Similarly, hyphens may be used to indicate how a word is being or should be spelled. For example, W-O-R-D spells "word".

Definitions of "peripatetics"

peripatetics >> /ˌpɛrɪpəˈtɛtɪk/

Definition: [noun] A person who travels from place to place, especially a teacher who works in more than one school or college.
Example: peripatetics have been cut under local management of schools

Definition: [noun] An Aristotelian philosopher.
Example: This powerful and consistent materialism, somewhat modified from its original form by Epicurus, persisted as the chief competitor to the teleological natural philosophies of the Peripatetics, Stoics and Platonists.

Definition: [adjective] Travelling from place to place, in particular working or based in various places for relatively short periods.
Example: the peripatetic nature of military life

Synonyms of "peripatetics"

nomadic | itinerant | travelling | wandering | roving | roaming | migrant | migratory | ambulatory | unsettled | vagabond | vagrant |

Definition: [adjective] Aristotelian.
Example: Introductions (attributed to Aristophanes) to some plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, based on the Didascaliae (lists of dramatic productions) of Aristotle and on Peripatetic research, are extant in an abbreviated form.