comma

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English [edit]

a comma butterfly

Etymology [edit]

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

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

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.

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Punctuation

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Italian [edit]

Noun [edit]

comma m (plural commi)

  1. (law) subsection

Latin [edit]

Etymology [edit]

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

Noun [edit]

comma

  1. piece, section