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FromLatinvirgula(“twig;wand;scratch comma”), fromvirga(“branch;rod”) +-ulus(“-ule:forming diminutives”). As a dowsing rod, viavirgula divina ordivinatoria.Doublet ofvirgule.

• (UK)IPA^(key): /ˈvəːɡjʊlə/
• (US)IPA^(key): /ˈvəɹɡjʊlə/

virgula (pluralvirgulasorvirgulae)

1. (zoology) Asmall,thin,straightgrowth,particularly:
   1. (obsolete) Thespines of aray.
   2. (obsolete) Thesicula of agraptolite.
2. (obsolete) Adivining ordowsing rod.
3. (rare)Anysmallrod.
4. (typography, rare)Synonym ofvirgule: apunctuation mark.
   • 1728,Ephraim Chambers, “Point”, inCyclopædia:

     A Point with aVirgula, call'd a Semicolon.

   • 1934, Robert C. Priebschet al., chapter X, inThe German Language, volume II, page380:

     The full stop or, instead, avirgula, 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.

5. (music, obsolete)Synonym ofstem: thetail of anote.
6. (music, historical, obsolete)Synonym ofvirga: one of theneumes ofmedievalmusicalnotation.

• (small rod):SeeThesaurus:stick

• virgule

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "virgula,n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1917.

• Homophones:virgulas,virgulât

virgula

1. third-personsingular past historic ofvirguler

Fromvirga(“twig, branch”) +‎-ula. As a typographic mark, from its resemblance and size.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈu̯ir.ɡu.la/,[ˈu̯ɪrɡʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈvir.ɡu.la/,[ˈvirɡulä]

virgula f (genitivevirgulae);first declension

1. a smallrod,stick,wand, orstaff
2. (Medieval Latin, typography) theslashmark ⟨/⟩, particularly initsmedieval use as ascratch comma
3. tender shoot, tendril

First-declension noun.

• virgella
• virgultum

• Italian:vergola
• Venetan:vérgoła

Borrowings:

• “virgula”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “virgula”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "virgula", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium 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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