virgule
英 ['vɜːgjuːl]
美 ['vɝgjʊl]
英文词源
- virgule
- virgule: see verge
- virgule (n.)
- thin sloping line similar to a modern backslash, used as a comma in medieval MSS and still in modern text to indicate line breaks in poetry, 1837, from French virgule (16c.), from Latin virgula "punctuation mark," literally "little twig," diminutive of virga "shoot, rod, stick." The word had been borrowed in its Latin form in 1728.