Jump to content

punctuation

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from Medieval Latin punctuātiō (a marking with points, a writing, agreement), from punctuō (to mark with points, settle). Morphologically, punctuate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

punctuation (countable and uncountable, plural punctuations)

  1. A set of symbols and marks which are used to clarify meaning in text by separating strings of words into clauses, phrases and sentences; examples include commas, hyphens, and stops (periods).
    Different languages have different rules for punctuation.
  2. An act of punctuating.

Meronyms

[edit]

Derived terms

[edit]
[edit]

Punctuation

Translations

[edit]

Further reading

[edit]