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virgule


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Virgule  \Vir"gule\,  n.  [F.  virgule,  fr  L.  virgula,  dim.  of 
  virga.  See  {Verge}  a  rod.] 
  A  comma.  [R.] 
 
  In  the  MSS.  of  Chaucer,  the  line  is  always  broken  by  a 
  c[ae]sura  in  the  middle,  which  is  pointed  by  a  virgule. 
  --Hallam. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  virgule 
  n  :  a  punctuation  mark  (/)  used  to  separate  related  items  of 
  information  [syn:  {solidus},  {slash},  {diagonal},  {stroke}, 
  {separatrix}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  virgule 
 
    Rare  and  ambiguous:  {slash}  or  {comma}. 
 
  Virgule"  (or  rather,  Latin  "virgula",  meaning  "little  rod" 
  or  vividly  enough,  "little  penis")  was  the  name  of  a 
  punctuation  character  shaped  like  a  small  {slash}  and  used  in 
  the  Latin  writing  system  much  like  a  modern  {comma}  --  hence 
  the  ambiguity  of  this  term  in  modern  English. 
 
  Compare  French  virgule"  and  Italian  "virgola",  meaning 
  comma"  (not  "slash");  Italian  "doppia  virgola"  and 
  "virgoletta",  both  meaning  "{double  quote}". 
 
  (1997-04-08) 
 
 




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