virguleyoudaoicibaDictYouDict[virgule 词源字典]
virgule: see verge
[virgule etymology, virgule origin, 英语词源]
virgule (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
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.