Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.
The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list. · A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark. · Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia. · A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep-? Proto-Hellenic *kopt͏̌ō Ancient Greek κόπτω (kóptō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *-mə Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma) Latin commabor. English comma From Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma), from κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”).
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