pilcrow

English

Etymology

Probably an alteration of Middle English pylcrafte, modification of Late Latin paragraphus.

Noun

pilcrow (plural pilcrows)

1. The paragraph mark ¶.
   • 2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 167:

     The pilcrow was a simple punctuation symbol used by medieval scribes to indicate the start and end of a paragraph.

Translations

a paragraph mark

• Basque: paragrafo zeinu
• Danish: afsnitstegn
• Dutch: alineateken
• French: pied-de-mouche (fr) m
• Galician: antígrafo m
• German: Absatzzeichen (de) n
• Hungarian: bekezdésjel
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• Italian: piede di mosca m
• Korean: 단락 기호 (dallak giho)
• Norwegian: avsnittstegn m
• Portuguese: pé de mosca m
• Russian: пункт знак m (punkt znak)
• Spanish: signo de antígrafo m, calderón (es) m
• Swedish: alinea (sv)