Hyphenation of emeritus

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word emeritus? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

emer-i-tus

Definitions of emeritus:

1.	A professor or minister who is retired from assigned duties
2.	Honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus'

Synonyms of emeritus:

adj	retired, old

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The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.