comma

English

a comma butterfly

Etymology

From Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (komma), from κόπτω (koptō, “I cut”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: kŏm'ə, IPA: /ˈkɒm.ə/, X-SAMPA: /"kQm.@/
• (US) enPR: kŏm'-ə, IPA: /ˈkɑm.ə/, X-SAMPA: /"kAm.@/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɒmə

Noun

comma (plural commas or commata)

1. Punctuation mark (,) (usually indicating a pause between parts of a sentence or between elements in a list).
2. (by extension) A diacritical mark used below certain letters in Romanian.
3. A European and North American butterfly, Polygonia c-album, of the family Nymphalidae.
4. (music) a small or very small interval between two enharmonic notes tuned in different ways.

Translations

Punctuation mark ','

• Arabic: فاصلة (ar) (faaSila) f, ، (ar)
• Armenian: ստորակետ (hy) (storaket) 
• Bashkir: өтөр (ӧtӧr)
• Bulgarian: запетая (bg) f (zapetaja)
• Catalan: coma (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 逗號 (cmn), 逗号 (cmn) (dòuhào), 逗點 (cmn), 逗点 (cmn) (dòudiǎn), 頓號 (cmn), 顿号 (cmn) (dùnhào) (special comma - "、")

• Crimean Tatar: virgül
• Czech: čárka (cs) f
• Danish: komma (da) n
• Dutch: komma (nl) f
• Esperanto: komo (eo)
• Faroese: komma (fo) n
• Finnish: pilkku (fi)
• French: virgule (fr) f
• Georgian: მძიმე (ka) (mjime)
• German: Komma (de) n, Beistrich (de) m
• Greek: κόμμα (el) n (kómma) (kómma), (typography) υποστιγμή (el) (ipostigmí) f 
• Hebrew: פסיק (he) (psyq) m
• Hungarian: vessző (hu)
• Icelandic: komma (is) f

• Interlingua: virgula (ia), comma (ia)
• Italian: virgola (it) f
• Japanese: コンマ (ja) (konma), 読点 (ja) (とうてん, tōten)
• Lojban: (for numbers) ki'o (jbo)
• Lower Sorbian: koma f
• Macedonian: запирка (mk) (zápirka) f
• Persian: ویرگول (fa) (virgul)
• Polish: przecinek (pl) m
• Portuguese: vírgula (pt) f
• Romanian: virgulă (ro) f
• Russian: запятая (ru) (zapjatája) f 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зарез (sh) m, запета (sh) f

  Roman: zarez (sh) m, zapeta (sh) f

• Slovak: čiarka (sk) f
• Slovene: vejica (sl) f
• Spanish: coma (es) f
• Swedish: komma (sv) n
• Turkish: virgül (tr)
• Upper Sorbian: koma (hsb) f
• Volapük: liunül (vo)

Butterfly

• Finnish: herukkaperhonen (fi)
• German: C-Falter (de) m

• Polish: rusałka ceik (pl) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Basque: ziri (eu), txotx (eu)
• Esperanto: komo (eo)

• Ido: komo (io)
• Korean: 쉼표 (ko) (swimpyo)

Derived terms

punctuation mark

commaless Harvard comma inverted comma

Oxford comma serial comma

See also

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) braces (publishing, music, programming) ( { } ) brackets (publishing, programming) ( [ ] ) colon ( : )

comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … ) exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop (British) or period (North America) ( . ) guillemets (publishing) ( « » )

hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ ) interpunct (publishing, web design) ( · ) interrobang (rare) ( ‽ ) parentheses ( ( ) )

question mark ( ? ) quotation marks (formal, British) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” ) quotation marks (informal, North America, computing) ( " ) ( ' )

semicolon ( ; ) slash ( / ) solidus (dated, mathematics) ( ⁄ ) space (   )

External links

• Comma (punctuation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Comma (punctuation)
• Comma (butterfly) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Comma (butterfly)

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Italian

Noun

comma m (plural commi)

1. (law) subsection

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόμμα (komma), from κόπτω (koptō, “I cut”).

Noun

comma

1. piece, section