virguleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Middle French virgule, from Latin virgula (“twig; scratch comma”), from virga (“rod, branch”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix). Doublet of virgula.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈvɜː.ɡjuːl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈvɝ.ɡjul/

名詞

virgule (plural virgules)

1. (typography, obsolete or historical) A medieval punctuation mark similar to the slash ⟨/⟩ or pipe ⟨|⟩ and used as a scratch comma and caesura mark.
   • 1990, John McDermott, Punctuation for Now, page 20:

     Other Chaucerian manuscripts had the virgule (or virgil or oblique: /) at the middle of lines.

2. (typography, dated) A slash, ⟨/⟩ or ⟨／⟩.
   1. Used to mark line breaks within quotes.
3. (typography, dated) A pipe, ⟨|⟩.
   1. (poetry) Used to mark metrical feet.

同意語

• (all): virgula (rare), virgil (UK, obsolete)
• (scratch comma): comma
• (caesura mark): caesura
• (oblique line): slash
• (vertical line): pipe

関連する語

• virgula, virgil