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a **comma** butterfly (*Polygonia c-album*Category:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Polygonia%20c-album)

(typography Category:en:Typography#COMMA) 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.
(Romanian typography Category:en:Typography#COMMA) A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
(entomology Category:en:Entomology#COMMA) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-albumCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Polygonia%20c-album and Polygonia c-aureumCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Polygonia%20c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
- 2004, Scott Shalaway, “Close-ups”, in Butterflies in the Backyard, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 18:
  Commas (Polygonia comma) and Question Marks (Polygonia interrogationis) occur from the Gulf Coast to Canada and west to the Rockies. [...] Question Marks and Commas are handsome butterflies with burnt orange and black markings. [...] On the underside of each hind wing of the Comma is a small, distinctive silver hook that resembles a comma.
  Category:English terms with quotations#COMMA
- 2013, Ann Simpson, Rob Simpson, “Butterflies and Moths”, in Nature Guide to Shenandoah National Park (Falcon Pocket Guide), Guilford, Conn.; Helena, Mont.: Falcon Guides, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 91:
  Other members of this genus that are frequently encountered in the park are the eastern comma (P. comma) and question mark (P. interrogationis).
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(music Category:en:Music#COMMA) A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
(genetics Category:en:Genetics#COMMA) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
(rhetoric Category:en:Rhetoric#COMMA) 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.
(figurative) A brief interval.

Translations

punctuation mark ','

Category:Entries with translation boxes#COMMA

Albanian: presje (sq) fCategory:Terms with Albanian translations#COMMA
Arabic: فَصْلَة f (faṣla)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#COMMA, فَاصِلَة f (fāṣila)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#COMMA, شَوْلَة f (šawla)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#COMMA, فارِزَة f (fāriza)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#COMMA, ، (ar)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#COMMA (symbol)
Aragonese: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Aragonese#COMMA
Armenian: ստորակետ (hy) (storaket)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#COMMA
Asturian: coma (ast) fCategory:Terms with Asturian translations#COMMA
Azerbaijani: vergül (az)Category:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#COMMA
Bashkir: өтөр (ötör)Category:Terms with Bashkir translations#COMMA
Belarusian: ко́ска f (kóska)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#COMMA
Bengali: কমা (bn) (koma)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#COMMA
Bulgarian: запета́я f (zapetája)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#COMMA
Burmese: ပုဒ်ကလေး (my) (pudka.le:)Category:Terms with Burmese translations#COMMA, ၊ (my) (|)Category:Terms with Burmese translations#COMMA, ကော်မာ (kauma)Category:Terms with Burmese translations#COMMA (in European languages)
Carpathian Rusyn: запята́ f (zapjatá)Category:Terms with Carpathian Rusyn translations#COMMA
Catalan: coma (ca) fCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#COMMA
Chinese:
Cantonese: 逗號 / 逗号 (dau⁶ hou⁶)Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#COMMA

Mandarin: 逗號 / 逗号 (zh) (dòuhào)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#COMMA Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#COMMA, 逗點 / 逗点 (zh) (dòudiǎn)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#COMMA Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#COMMA, 頓號 / 顿号 (zh) (dùnhào)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#COMMA Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#COMMA (special comma - "、")
Cornish: komma mCategory:Terms with Cornish translations#COMMA, kommas m plCategory:Terms with Cornish translations#COMMA
Corsican: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Corsican#COMMA
Crimean Tatar: virgülCategory:Terms with Crimean Tatar translations#COMMA
Czech: čárka (cs) fCategory:Terms with Czech translations#COMMA
Danish: komma (da) nCategory:Terms with Danish translations#COMMA
Dutch: komma (nl) fCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#COMMA
Emilian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Emilian#COMMA
Esperanto: komoCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#COMMA
Estonian: koma (et)Category:Terms with Estonian translations#COMMA
Extremaduran: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Extremaduran#COMMA
Faroese: komma nCategory:Terms with Faroese translations#COMMA
Finnish: pilkku (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#COMMA
French: virgule (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#COMMA
Frisian:
West Frisian: komma cCategory:Terms with West Frisian translations#COMMA, skrapke nCategory:Terms with West Frisian translations#COMMA
Friulian: virgule fCategory:Terms with Friulian translations#COMMA
Galician: coma (gl) fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#COMMA, vírgula fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#COMMA
Gallo: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Gallo#COMMA
Georgian: მძიმე (ka) (mʒime)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#COMMA
German: Beistrich (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#COMMA, Komma (de) nCategory:Terms with German translations#COMMA (also denotes the German or Fraktur comma with a shape similar to /)
Greek: κόμμα (el) n (kómma)Category:Terms with Greek translations#COMMA
Hebrew: פְּסִיק m (psik)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#COMMA
Hindi: अल्पविराम (hi) m (alpavirām)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#COMMA, कामा (hi) m (kāmā)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#COMMA
Hungarian: vessző (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#COMMA
Icelandic: komma (is) fCategory:Terms with Icelandic translations#COMMA
Ido: komo (io)Category:Terms with Ido translations#COMMA
Indonesian: koma (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#COMMA
Interlingua: virgulaCategory:Terms with Interlingua translations#COMMA, commaCategory:Terms with Interlingua translations#COMMA
Irish: camóg fCategory:Terms with Irish translations#COMMA
Italian: virgola (it) fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#COMMA
Japanese: コンマ (ja) (konma)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#COMMA, 読点 (ja) (とうてん, tōten)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#COMMA
Kazakh: үтір (ütır)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#COMMA
Khmer: សញ្ញាក្បៀស (saññaa kbiəh)Category:Terms with Khmer translations#COMMA, កណ្ដកសញ្ញា (km) (kɑndɑk saññaa)Category:Terms with Khmer translations#COMMA
Korean: 쉼표 (ko) (swimpyo)Category:Terms with Korean translations#COMMA, 콤마 (ko) (komma)Category:Terms with Korean translations#COMMA
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: vîrgul (ku)Category:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#COMMA, bêhnok (ku)Category:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#COMMA, koma (ku)Category:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#COMMA
Kyrgyz: үтүр (ky) (ütür)Category:Terms with Kyrgyz translations#COMMA
Lao: ຈຸດ (chut)Category:Terms with Lao translations#COMMA, ຈຸນລະພາກ (chun la phāk)Category:Terms with Lao translations#COMMA
Latin: comma nCategory:Terms with Latin translations#COMMA, sīcīlicus mCategory:Terms with Latin translations#COMMA, diastolē fCategory:Terms with Latin translations#COMMA
Latvian: komats mCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#COMMA
Leonese: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Leonese#COMMA
Ligurian: còmma fCategory:Terms with Ligurian translations#COMMA
Lithuanian: kablelis (lt) mCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#COMMA
Lombard: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Lombard#COMMA
Luxembourgish: Komma mCategory:Terms with Luxembourgish translations#COMMA
Macedonian: запирка f (zapirka)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#COMMA
Malay: komaCategory:Terms with Malay translations#COMMA
Malayalam: അല്പവിരാമം (alpavirāmaṁ)Category:Terms with Malayalam translations#COMMA
Māori: pikoCategory:Terms with Māori translations#COMMA
Mirandese: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Mirandese#COMMA
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: таслал (mn) (taslal)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#COMMA
Neapolitan: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Neapolitan#COMMA
Norwegian:
Bokmål: komma nCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#COMMA
Occitan: virgula (oc) fCategory:Terms with Occitan translations#COMMA
Ossetian: къӕдзыг (k’æʒyg)Category:Terms with Ossetian translations#COMMA
Pannonian Rusyn: запята f (zapjata)Category:Terms with Pannonian Rusyn translations#COMMA
Pashto: کامه f (kāma)Category:Terms with Pashto translations#COMMA, وېرګول m (wirgul)Category:Terms with Pashto translations#COMMA, ،Category:Terms with Pashto translations#COMMA (symbol)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: ویرْگول (virgul)Category:Persian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#COMMA Category:Terms with Iranian Persian translations#COMMA Category:Terms with Persian translations#COMMA, واوَک (vâvak)Category:Terms with Iranian Persian translations#COMMA Category:Terms with Persian translations#COMMA, دِرَنْگ‌نَما (derang-namâ)Category:Terms with Iranian Persian translations#COMMA Category:Terms with Persian translations#COMMA, کاما (fa) (kâmâ)Category:Terms with Iranian Persian translations#COMMA Category:Terms with Persian translations#COMMA, مُمَیِّز (momayyez)Category:Terms with Iranian Persian translations#COMMA Category:Terms with Persian translations#COMMA (decimal point, represented by a comma), ،Category:Terms with Persian translations#COMMA (symbol)
Piedmontese: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Piedmontese#COMMA
Polish: przecinek (pl) m inanCategory:Terms with Polish translations#COMMA
Portuguese: vírgula (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#COMMA
Romagnol: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Romagnol#COMMA
Romanian: virgulă (ro) fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#COMMA
Russian: запята́я (ru) f (zapjatája)Category:Terms with Russian translations#COMMA
Sardinian:
Campidanese: vírgula fCategory:Terms with Sardinian translations#COMMA
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: за́рез mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#COMMA, за̏пета fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#COMMA

Latin: zárez (sh) mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#COMMA, zȁpeta (sh) fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#COMMA
Shor: сеткин (setkin)Category:Terms with Shor translations#COMMA
Sicilian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Sicilian#COMMA
Slovak: čiarka fCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#COMMA
Slovene: vejica (sl) fCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#COMMA
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: koma fCategory:Terms with Lower Sorbian translations#COMMA

Upper Sorbian: koma fCategory:Terms with Upper Sorbian translations#COMMA
Spanish: coma (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#COMMA
Swahili: alama ya mkato (sw)Category:Terms with Swahili translations#COMMA, koma (sw)Category:Terms with Swahili translations#COMMA
Swedish: komma (sv) nCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#COMMA
Tagalog: kuwitCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#COMMA
Tajik: вергул (vergul)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#COMMA
Tamil: காற்புள்ளி (ta) (kāṟpuḷḷi)Category:Terms with Tamil translations#COMMA
Tarantino: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Tarantino#COMMA
Tatar: өтер (tt) (öter)Category:Terms with Tatar translations#COMMA
Thai: จุลภาค (th) (jun-lá-pâak)Category:Terms with Thai translations#COMMA, ลูกน้ำ (th) (lûuk-náam)Category:Terms with Thai translations#COMMA, จุดลูกน้ำ (th) (jùt-lûuk-náam)Category:Terms with Thai translations#COMMA
Turkish: virgül (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#COMMA
Turkmen: oturCategory:Terms with Turkmen translations#COMMA
Ukrainian: пере́тинка f (perétynka)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#COMMA, ко́ма (uk) f (kóma)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#COMMA
Urdu: کاما m (kāmā)Category:Terms with Urdu translations#COMMA, سَکْتَہ m (sakta)Category:Terms with Urdu translations#COMMA, ،Category:Terms with Urdu translations#COMMA (symbol)
Uyghur: پەش (pesh)Category:Terms with Uyghur translations#COMMA
Uzbek: vergul (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#COMMA
Vietnamese: phẩy (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#COMMA
Volapük: liunül (vo)Category:Terms with Volapük translations#COMMA
Walloon: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Walloon#COMMA
Welsh: atalnod mCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#COMMA, coma mCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#COMMA
Yakut: тарып (tarïp)Category:Terms with Yakut translations#COMMA
Yiddish: קאָמע f (kome)Category:Terms with Yiddish translations#COMMA
Zulu: uqhwishi class 1a/2aCategory:Terms with Zulu translations#COMMA

butterfly

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Catalan: papallona de la c blanca fCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#COMMA
Dutch: (Polygonia c-album) gehakkelde aurelia (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#COMMA
Finnish: herukkaperhonenCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#COMMA
German: C-Falter mCategory:Terms with German translations#COMMA
Hungarian: (Polygonia c-album) c-betűs lepkeCategory:Terms with Hungarian translations#COMMA
Irish: camóg fCategory:Terms with Irish translations#COMMA
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hvit C mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#COMMA, hvit c mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#COMMA
Polish: rusałka ceik fCategory:Terms with Polish translations#COMMA
Turkish: yırtık pırtık (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#COMMA
Welsh: mantell garpiog fCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#COMMA

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

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Basque: ^{(please verify)} ziriCategory:Terms with Basque translations#COMMA Category:Requests for review of Basque translations#COMMA, ^{(please verify)} txotxCategory:Terms with Basque translations#COMMA Category:Requests for review of Basque translations#COMMA
Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} komoCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#COMMA Category:Requests for review of Esperanto translations#COMMA
Ido: ^{(please verify)} komo (io)Category:Terms with Ido translations#COMMA Category:Requests for review of Ido translations#COMMA

Verb

comma (third-person singular simple present commas, present participle commaing, simple past and past participle commaed)Category:English lemmas#COMMA Category:English verbs#COMMA Category:English entries with incorrect language header#COMMA Category:Pages with entries#COMMA Category:Pages with 4 entries#COMMA

(rare Category:English terms with rare senses#COMMA, transitive Category:English transitive verbs#COMMA) To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.

Translations

to place a comma

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French: virguler (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#COMMA

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkɔm.ma/Category:Italian 2-syllable words#COMMA Category:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#COMMA
Rhymes: -ɔmma Category:Rhymes:Italian/ɔmma#COMMA Category:Rhymes:Italian/ɔmma/2 syllables#COMMA
Hyphenation: còm‧ma

Noun

comma m (plural commi)Category:Italian lemmas#COMMA Category:Italian nouns#COMMA Category:Italian countable nouns#COMMA Category:Italian nouns with irregular gender#COMMA Category:Italian entries with incorrect language header#COMMA Category:Italian masculine nouns#COMMA Category:Pages with entries#COMMA Category:Pages with 4 entries#COMMA

(law Category:it:Law#COMMA) subsection, subparagraph
ll secondo comma dell'articolo 3
the second subparagraph of article 3
Category:Italian terms with usage examples#COMMA
(music Category:it:Music#COMMA) comma

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Category:Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek#COMMA κόμμα (kómma), from κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔm.ma]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#COMMA Category:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#COMMA

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔm.ma]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#COMMA Category:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#COMMA

Noun

comma n (genitive commatis)Category:Latin lemmas#COMMA Category:Latin nouns#COMMA Category:Latin third declension nouns#COMMA Category:Latin neuter nouns in the third declension#COMMA Category:Latin entries with incorrect language header#COMMA Category:Latin neuter nouns#COMMA Category:Pages with entries#COMMA Category:Pages with 4 entries#COMMA; third declension

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

Usage notes

In the works of Cicero and Quintilian, the untransliterated Greek κόμμα (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).

	singular	plural
nominative	comma	commata
genitive	commatis	commatum
dative	commatī	commatibus
accusative	comma	commata
ablative	commate	commatibus
vocative	comma	commata

Synonyms

caesum
(comma: division of a period): incīsum (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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“comma”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 348/3.

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