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English

Alternative forms

• come (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin comma, from Ancient Greek ????? (kómma), from ????? (kópt?, “I cut”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: k?m'?, IPA^(key): /?k?m.?/
• (US) enPR: k?m'-?, IPA^(key): /?k?m.?/
• Rhymes: -?m?

Noun

comma (plural commas or commata)

1. (typography) The punctuation mark ?,? used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.

   Synonyms: scratch comma, virgule, (in its obsolete form as a slash) virgula, (in its obsolete form as a middot) come, (obsolete) comma-point

   Hyponyms: comma of Didymus, inverted comma, Oxford comma, serial comma, syntonic comma

   • 1828, Richard Thomson, Illustrations of the History of Great Britain, Vol. II, pp. 145–6:

     No points were used by the ancient printers, excepting the colon and the period; but, after some time, a short oblique stroke, called a virgil, was introduced, which answered to the modern comma. In the fifteenth century this punctuation was improved by the famous Aldus Manutius with the typographical art in general; when he gave a better shape to the comma, added the semicolon, and assigned to the former points more proper places.

2. (Romanian typography) A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
3. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
4. (music) A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
5. (genetics) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
6. (rhetoric) In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
7. (figuratively) A brief interval.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

comma (third-person singular simple present commas, present participle commaing, simple past and past participle commaed)

1. (rare, transitive) To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.

See also

Punctuation

Further reading

• comma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Comma (punctuation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Comma (butterfly) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: commas, commât

Verb

comma

1. third-person singular past historic of commer

Italian

Noun

comma m (plural commi)

1. (law) subsection, subparagraph

2. (music) comma

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ????? (kómma), from ????? (kópt?, “I cut”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kom.ma/, [?k?m?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kom.ma/, [?k?m??]

Noun

comma n (genitive commatis); third declension

1. (in grammar):
   1. a comma (a division, member, or section of a period smaller than a colon)
   2. a comma (a mark of punctuation)
2. (in verse) a caesura

Usage notes

• In the works of Cicero and Quintilian, the untransliterated Greek ????? (kómma) is used for comma in the grammatical sense of “a division…of a period smaller than a colon”.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Synonyms

• caesum
• (comma: division of a period): inc?sum (pure Latin)

References

• comma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• comma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• comma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 348/3