virgula

== English == === Etymology === 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 === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈvəːɡjʊlə/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈvəɹɡjʊlə/ === Noun === virgula (plural virgulas or virgulae) (zoology) A small, thin, straight growth, particularly: (obsolete) The spines of a ray. (obsolete) The sicula of a graptolite. (obsolete) A divining or dowsing rod. (rare) Any small rod. (typography, rare) Synonym of virgule: a punctuation mark. (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 ==== (small rod): See Thesaurus:stick ==== Related terms ==== === References === Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "virgula, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1917. == French == === Pronunciation === Homophones: virgulas, virgulât === Verb === virgula third-person singular past historic of virguler == Latin == === Etymology === From virga (“twig, branch”) +‎ -ula. As a typographic mark, from its resemblance and size. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwɪr.ɡʊ.ɫa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvir.ɡu.la] === Noun === virgula f (genitive virgulae); first declension a small rod, stick, wand, or staff (Medieval Latin, typography) the slash mark ⟨/⟩, particularly in its medieval use as a scratch comma tender shoot, tendril ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== virgella virgultum ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: vérgola Italian: vergola Venetan: vérgoła Borrowings: === References === “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)