Prǽstet about hyphen-la HOT 5 CLOSED

In principle, it is not necessary to write the acute on a word of one or two syllables in Latin, so we did not write it in the files of the repo… that explain the difference.

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After some tests, it appears that the problem comes from the accented character ǽ. We can circumscribe the verb præsto to 144 forms. Of these 144 forms, 14 are accented on the æ, 12 of which do not require to mark it since they contain only 2 syllables:

• præsta
• præstans
• præstant
• præstas
• præstat
• præstem
• præstent
• præster
• præstes
• præstet
• præsto
• præstor

and 2 forms that have 3 syllables and therefore need to mark the accent:

• prǽstiti
• prǽstitit

The verb forms that do not need accent are correctly hyphenated.

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I will add all the verb forms in a test file and will take care of the correction of the patterns for those two forms, this should probably work also for accented two-syllable forms, for those who use them.

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I searched all Latin words starting with præst, it gives about fifty words if we do not count the declensions or conjugations.
All are composed of the prefix præ, which gives a hyphenation in præ- without difficulty.
A slight doubt could subsist however for præstino. Goelzer gives an etymology from præs, but it is not very clear, and a badly dropped line break prevents to be sure of the hyphen (!). On the other hand, I found a book (Les mots latins groupés d'après le sens et l'étymologie, Bréal & Bailly, page 366) which gives as stano origin with the prefix præ.
If we take this for valid (according to the law of the "who says better?"), there is no exception to the hyphenation præ-.

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Les mots latins of Martin do not give anything for præstino…

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