virgule

Borrowed from Middle French virgule, from Latin virgula (“twig; scratch comma”), from virga (“rod, branch”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix). Doublet of virgula.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvɜː.ɡjuːl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈvɝ.ɡjul/

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virgule (plural virgules)

1. (typography, obsolete or historical) A medieval punctuation mark similar to the slash ⟨/⟩ or pipe ⟨|⟩ and used as a scratch comma and caesura mark.
   • 1990, John McDermott, Punctuation for Now, page 20:

     Other Chaucerian manuscripts had the virgule (or virgil or oblique: /) at the middle of lines.

2. (typography, dated) A slash, ⟨/⟩ or ⟨／⟩.
   1. Used to mark line breaks within quotes.
3. (typography, dated) A pipe, ⟨|⟩.
   1. (poetry) Used to mark metrical feet.

• (all): virgula (rare), virgil (UK, obsolete)
• (scratch comma): comma
• (caesura mark): caesura
• (oblique line): slash
• (vertical line): pipe

• virgula, virgil

Borrowed from Latin virgula, diminutive of virga (“rod, branch”).

virgule f

1. divining rod

Borrowed from Latin virgula, diminutive of virga (“rod, branch”).

• IPA^(key): /viʁ.ɡyl/

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• Audio (Paris):

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• Homophones: virgules, virgulent

virgule f (plural virgules)

1. comma (punctuation mark)
2. (mathematics) decimal comma (see usage notes)

   En Europe continentale, la virgule permet de noter la partie décimale; pi vaut environ 3,1415. ― In continental Europe, the comma is used to denote the decimal part; pi is about 3.1415.

• In France, unlike in English-speaking countries, a comma is used to separate the whole and decimal parts of a decimal, while a space (gap) is used to mark off thousands. So "100,000.9" ("one-hundred thousand point 9") is written in French as "100 000,9".

• → Romanian: virgulă
• → Turkish: virgül
• → Persian: ویرگول (virgul)
• → Azerbaijani: vergül
• → Uzbek: vergul

virgule

1. inflection of virguler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “virgule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

virgule f (plural virgulis)

1. comma

• virdgule

Borrowed from Latin virgula, diminutive of virga (“rod, branch”).

virgule f (plural virgules)

1. (Jersey) comma

• point virgule (“semicolon”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈvir.ɡu.le]

virgule f pl

1. plural of virgulă