"virgula" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈvəːɡjʊlə/ [UK], /ˈvəɹɡjʊlə/ [US] Forms: virgulas [plural], virgulae [plural]
Etymology: From Latin virgula (“twig; wand; scratch comma”), from virga (“branch; rod”) + -ulus (“-ule: forming diminutives”). As a dowsing rod, via virgula divina or divinatoria. Doublet of virgule. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|virgula||twig; wand; scratch comma}} Latin virgula (“twig; wand; scratch comma”), {{m|la|virga||branch; rod}} virga (“branch; rod”), {{m|la|-ulus||-ule: forming diminutives}} -ulus (“-ule: forming diminutives”), {{m|la|virgula divina}} virgula divina, {{m|la|virgula divinatoria|divinatoria}} divinatoria, {{doublet|en|virgule}} Doublet of virgule Head templates: {{en-noun|s|virgulae}} virgula (plural virgulas or virgulae)
  1. (zoology) A small, thin, straight growth
    (obsolete) The spines of a ray.
    Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Zoology
    Sense id: en-virgula-en-noun-vOR7g5XF Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 10 23 27 8 4 5 22 Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
  2. (zoology) A small, thin, straight growth
    (obsolete) The sicula of a graptolite.
    Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Zoology
    Sense id: en-virgula-en-noun-jEzQWp-E Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 10 23 27 8 4 5 22 Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
  3. (obsolete) A divining or dowsing rod. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-virgula-en-noun-PuBYrtRt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 14 36 8 4 3 24 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 10 23 27 8 4 5 22
  4. (rare) Any small rod. Tags: rare Synonyms (small rod): stick
    Sense id: en-virgula-en-noun-~cSFlqGU Disambiguation of 'small rod': 11 11 13 66 0 0 0
  5. (typography, rare) Synonym of virgule: a punctuation mark. Tags: rare Categories (topical): Typography, Punctuation marks Synonyms: virgule [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-virgula-en-noun-yZAQ8rqU Disambiguation of Punctuation marks: 7 8 21 5 41 2 15 Topics: media, publishing, typography
  6. (music, obsolete) Synonym of stem: the tail of a note. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Music Synonyms: stem [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-virgula-en-noun-IP6a0gdn Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
  7. (music, historical, obsolete) Synonym of virga: one of the neumes of medieval musical notation. Tags: historical, obsolete Categories (topical): Music Synonyms: virga [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-virgula-en-noun-LGd-riVz Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 10 23 27 8 4 5 22 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: virgule

Verb [French]

Head templates: {{head|fr|verb form}} virgula
  1. third-person singular past historic of virguler Tags: form-of, historic, past, singular, third-person Form of: virguler
    Sense id: en-virgula-fr-verb-jwtOIiVF Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Latin]

IPA: /ˈu̯ir.ɡu.la/ [Classical], [ˈu̯ɪrɡʊɫ̪ä] [Classical], /ˈvir.ɡu.la/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈvirɡulä] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From virga (“twig, branch”) + -ula. As a typographic mark, from its resemblance and size. Etymology templates: {{af|la|virga|-ulus|alt2=-ula|gloss1=twig, branch}} virga (“twig, branch”) + -ula Head templates: {{la-noun|virgula<1>}} virgula f (genitive virgulae); first declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|virgula<1>}} Forms: virgulae [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], virgula [nominative, singular], virgulae [nominative, plural], virgulae [genitive, singular], virgulārum [genitive, plural], virgulae [dative, singular], virgulīs [dative, plural], virgulam [accusative, singular], virgulās [accusative, plural], virgulā [ablative, singular], virgulīs [ablative, plural], virgula [singular, vocative], virgulae [plural, vocative]
  1. a small rod, stick, wand, or staff Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-virgula-la-noun-4VlCf2jt
  2. (Medieval Latin, typography) the slash mark ⟨/⟩, particularly (historical or obsolete) in its medieval use as a scratch comma. Tags: Medieval-Latin, declension-1, feminine Categories (topical): Typography
    Sense id: en-virgula-la-noun-rhuhz720 Categories (other): Medieval Latin, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin feminine nouns in the first declension, Latin terms suffixed with -ulus Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 4 89 7 Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the first declension: 26 46 29 Disambiguation of Latin terms suffixed with -ulus: 15 80 6 Topics: media, publishing, typography
  3. tender shoot, tendril Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-virgula-la-noun-yqhaajfT
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: virgella, virgultum

Inflected forms

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      "text": "→ Turkish: virgül"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "vírgula",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: vírgula",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: vírgula"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "vírgula",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: vírgula",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: vírgula"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "virga",
        "3": "-ulus",
        "alt2": "-ula",
        "gloss1": "twig, branch"
      },
      "expansion": "virga (“twig, branch”) + -ula",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From virga (“twig, branch”) + -ula. As a typographic mark, from its resemblance and size.",
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    {
      "form": "virgulae",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgula",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgula",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "virgula<1>"
      },
      "expansion": "virgula f (genitive virgulae); first declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "virgula<1>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a small rod, stick, wand, or staff"
      ],
      "id": "en-virgula-la-noun-4VlCf2jt",
      "links": [
        [
          "rod",
          "rod"
        ],
        [
          "stick",
          "stick"
        ],
        [
          "wand",
          "wand"
        ],
        [
          "staff",
          "staff"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Medieval Latin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Typography",
          "orig": "la:Typography",
          "parents": [
            "Printing",
            "Writing",
            "Industries",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Business",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Sciences"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 89 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 46 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 80 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin terms suffixed with -ulus",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the slash mark ⟨/⟩, particularly (historical or obsolete) in its medieval use as a scratch comma."
      ],
      "id": "en-virgula-la-noun-rhuhz720",
      "links": [
        [
          "typography",
          "typography"
        ],
        [
          "slash",
          "slash"
        ],
        [
          "mark",
          "mark"
        ],
        [
          "/",
          "/"
        ],
        [
          "particularly",
          "particularly"
        ],
        [
          "its",
          "its"
        ],
        [
          "medieval",
          "medieval"
        ],
        [
          "use",
          "use"
        ],
        [
          "scratch comma",
          "scratch comma"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Medieval Latin, typography) the slash mark ⟨/⟩, particularly (historical or obsolete) in its medieval use as a scratch comma."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Medieval-Latin",
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "typography"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "tender shoot, tendril"
      ],
      "id": "en-virgula-la-noun-yqhaajfT",
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈu̯ir.ɡu.la/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈu̯ɪrɡʊɫ̪ä]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvir.ɡu.la/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈvirɡulä]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "virgula"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English doublets",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "en:Punctuation marks"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "virgula",
        "4": "",
        "5": "twig; wand; scratch comma"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin virgula (“twig; wand; scratch comma”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "virga",
        "3": "",
        "4": "branch; rod"
      },
      "expansion": "virga (“branch; rod”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "-ulus",
        "3": "",
        "4": "-ule: forming diminutives"
      },
      "expansion": "-ulus (“-ule: forming diminutives”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "virgula divina"
      },
      "expansion": "virgula divina",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "virgula divinatoria",
        "3": "divinatoria"
      },
      "expansion": "divinatoria",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "virgule"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of virgule",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin virgula (“twig; wand; scratch comma”), from virga (“branch; rod”) + -ulus (“-ule: forming diminutives”). As a dowsing rod, via virgula divina or divinatoria. Doublet of virgule.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "virgulas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulae",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "virgulae"
      },
      "expansion": "virgula (plural virgulas or virgulae)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "virgule"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "en:Zoology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small, thin, straight growth",
        "The spines of a ray."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "zoology",
          "zoology"
        ],
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "thin",
          "thin"
        ],
        [
          "straight",
          "straight"
        ],
        [
          "growth",
          "growth"
        ],
        [
          "particularly",
          "particularly"
        ],
        [
          "spine",
          "spine"
        ],
        [
          "ray",
          "ray"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(zoology) A small, thin, straight growth",
        "(obsolete) The spines of a ray."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "en:Zoology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small, thin, straight growth",
        "The sicula of a graptolite."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "zoology",
          "zoology"
        ],
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "thin",
          "thin"
        ],
        [
          "straight",
          "straight"
        ],
        [
          "growth",
          "growth"
        ],
        [
          "particularly",
          "particularly"
        ],
        [
          "sicula",
          "sicula"
        ],
        [
          "graptolite",
          "graptolite"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(zoology) A small, thin, straight growth",
        "(obsolete) The sicula of a graptolite."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A divining or dowsing rod."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "divining",
          "divining rod"
        ],
        [
          "dowsing rod",
          "dowsing rod"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A divining or dowsing rod."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any small rod."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Any",
          "any"
        ],
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "rod",
          "rod"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) Any small rod."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Typography"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1728, Ephraim Chambers, “Point”, in Cyclopædia",
          "text": "A Point with a Virgula, call'd a Semicolon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, Robert C. Priebsch et al., chapter X, in The German Language, volume II, page 380",
          "text": "The full stop or, instead, a virgula, i.e. a short slanting strike (/) is used... to mark the end of a sentence or of a portion of a sentence followed by a pause.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of virgule: a punctuation mark."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "typography",
          "typography"
        ],
        [
          "virgule",
          "virgule#English"
        ],
        [
          "punctuation mark",
          "punctuation mark"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(typography, rare) Synonym of virgule: a punctuation mark."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "a punctuation mark",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "virgule"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "typography"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "en:Music"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of stem: the tail of a note."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "stem",
          "stem#English"
        ],
        [
          "tail",
          "tail"
        ],
        [
          "note",
          "note"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music, obsolete) Synonym of stem: the tail of a note."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "the tail of a note",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "stem"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "en:Music"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of virga: one of the neumes of medieval musical notation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "virga",
          "virga#English"
        ],
        [
          "neume",
          "neume"
        ],
        [
          "medieval",
          "medieval"
        ],
        [
          "musical",
          "musical"
        ],
        [
          "notation",
          "notation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music, historical, obsolete) Synonym of virga: one of the neumes of medieval musical notation."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "one of the neumes of medieval musical notation",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "virga"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvəːɡjʊlə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvəɹɡjʊlə/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "small rod",
      "word": "stick"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "virgula"
  ],
  "word": "virgula"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "virgula",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French non-lemma forms",
        "French terms with homophones",
        "French verb forms"
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "virguler"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "third-person singular past historic of virguler"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "virguler",
          "virguler#French"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "historic",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "homophone": "virgulas"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "virgulât"
    }
  ],
  "word": "virgula"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Latin 3-syllable words",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin feminine nouns",
    "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
    "Latin first declension nouns",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin terms suffixed with -ulus",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "virgella"
    },
    {
      "word": "virgultum"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "vergola"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: vergola",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: vergola"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "vérgoła"
          },
          "expansion": "Venetian: vérgoła",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Venetian: vérgoła"
    },
    {
      "depth": 0,
      "templates": [],
      "text": ""
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "vírgula",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Catalan: vírgula",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Catalan: vírgula"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "Virgel",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: Virgel",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: Virgel"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "virgola",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Italian: virgola",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Italian: virgola"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pms",
            "2": "vìrgola",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Piedmontese: vìrgola",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Piedmontese: vìrgola"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "scn",
            "2": "vìrgula",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Sicilian: vìrgula",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Sicilian: vìrgula"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "frm",
            "2": "virgule",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Middle French: virgule",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Middle French: virgule"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "virgule"
          },
          "expansion": "French: virgule",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: virgule"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "virgule",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: virgule",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: virgule"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "virgulă",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Romanian: virgulă",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Romanian: virgulă"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "tr",
            "2": "virgül",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Turkish: virgül",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Turkish: virgül"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "vírgula",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: vírgula",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: vírgula"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "vírgula",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: vírgula",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: vírgula"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "virga",
        "3": "-ulus",
        "alt2": "-ula",
        "gloss1": "twig, branch"
      },
      "expansion": "virga (“twig, branch”) + -ula",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From virga (“twig, branch”) + -ula. As a typographic mark, from its resemblance and size.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "virgulae",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgula",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgula",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "virgulae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "virgula<1>"
      },
      "expansion": "virgula f (genitive virgulae); first declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "virgula<1>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a small rod, stick, wand, or staff"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rod",
          "rod"
        ],
        [
          "stick",
          "stick"
        ],
        [
          "wand",
          "wand"
        ],
        [
          "staff",
          "staff"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with historical senses",
        "Latin terms with obsolete senses",
        "Medieval Latin",
        "la:Typography"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the slash mark ⟨/⟩, particularly (historical or obsolete) in its medieval use as a scratch comma."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "typography",
          "typography"
        ],
        [
          "slash",
          "slash"
        ],
        [
          "mark",
          "mark"
        ],
        [
          "/",
          "/"
        ],
        [
          "particularly",
          "particularly"
        ],
        [
          "its",
          "its"
        ],
        [
          "medieval",
          "medieval"
        ],
        [
          "use",
          "use"
        ],
        [
          "scratch comma",
          "scratch comma"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Medieval Latin, typography) the slash mark ⟨/⟩, particularly (historical or obsolete) in its medieval use as a scratch comma."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Medieval-Latin",
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "typography"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "tender shoot, tendril"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈu̯ir.ɡu.la/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈu̯ɪrɡʊɫ̪ä]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvir.ɡu.la/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈvirɡulä]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "virgula"
}

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