virgula
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[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Virga1.gif/120px-Virga1.gif)
Etymology
[edit]From Latin virgula (“twig; wand; scratch comma”), from virga (“branch; rod”) + -ulus (“-ule: forming diminutives”). As a dowsing rod, via virgula divina or divinatoria. Doublet of virgule.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]virgula (plural virgulas or virgulae)
- (zoology) A small, thin, straight growth, particularly:
- (obsolete) A divining or dowsing rod.
- (rare) Any small rod.
- (typography, rare) Synonym of virgule: a punctuation mark.
- 1728, Ephraim Chambers, “Point”, in Cyclopædia:
- A Point with a Virgula, call'd a Semicolon.
- 1934, Robert C. Priebsch et al., chapter X, in The German Language, volume II, page 380:
- The full stop or, instead, a virgula, i.e. a short slanting strike (/) is used... to mark the end of a sentence or of a portion of a sentence followed by a pause.
- (music, obsolete) Synonym of stem: the tail of a note.
- (music, historical, obsolete) Synonym of virga: one of the neumes of medieval musical notation.
Synonyms
[edit]- (small rod): See Thesaurus:stick
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "virgula, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1917.
French
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[edit]Verb
[edit]virgula
- third-person singular past historic of virguler
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From virga (“twig, branch”) + -ula. As a typographic mark, from its resemblance and size.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯ir.ɡu.la/, [ˈu̯ɪrɡʊɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvir.ɡu.la/, [ˈvirɡulä]
Noun
[edit]virgula f (genitive virgulae); first declension
- a small rod, stick, wand, or staff
- (Medieval Latin, typography) the slash mark ⟨/⟩, particularly (historical or obsolete) in its medieval use as a scratch comma.
- tender shoot, tendril
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | virgula | virgulae |
Genitive | virgulae | virgulārum |
Dative | virgulae | virgulīs |
Accusative | virgulam | virgulās |
Ablative | virgulā | virgulīs |
Vocative | virgula | virgulae |
Derived terms
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References
[edit]- “virgula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “virgula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- virgula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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