| virgule Rare, and ambiguous: or . "Virgule" (or rather, Latin "virgula", meaning "little rod" or, vividly enough, "little penis") was the name of a punctuation character shaped like a small and used in the Latin writing system much like a modern — hence the ambiguity of this term in modern English. Compare French "virgule" and Italian "virgola", meaning "comma" (not "slash"); Italian "doppia virgola" and "virgoletta", both meaning "". (1997-04-08) |
на заглавную 
к началу страницы