comma

See also coma

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

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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) Bosnian: zarez m., zapeta f. Bulgarian: запетая (bg) f. 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. Dutch: komma (nl) f. Esperanto: komo (eo) Finnish: pilkku (fi) French: virgule (fr) f. Georgian: მძიმე (ka) German: Komma (de) n., Beistrich (de) m. Greek: κόμμα (el) n. (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. Polish: przecinek (pl) m. Portuguese: vírgula (pt) f. Romanian: virgulă (ro) f. Russian: запятая (ru) (zapjatája) f. Serbian: Cyrillic: зарез m., запета f. Roman: zarez m., zapeta f. Slovak: čiarka f. Slovene: vejica (sl) f. Spanish: coma (es) f. Swedish: komma (sv) n. Turkish: virgül (1) Upper Sorbian: koma f. Volapük: liunül (vo)

Butterfly

German: C-Falter (de) m.

Polish: rusałka ceik (pl) f.

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Translations to be checked

Basque: ziri, txotx Esperanto: komo

Ido: komo Korean: 쉼표 (swimpyo)

Derived terms

punctuation mark

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