virgule

英 ['vɜːgjuːl] 美 ['vɝgjʊl]
  • n. 置于二字之间表示任取一字均可得短斜线

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.

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