Comma

Noun

 * 1) Punctuation mark , (usually indicating a pause between parts of a sentence or between elements in a list).
 * 2)  A diacritical mark used below certain letters in Romanian.
 * 3) A European and North American butterfly, Polygonia c-album, of the family Nymphalidae.
 * 4)  a small or very small interval between two enharmonic notes tuned in different ways.

Adjectives for Comma
checking; favored; interfering; interspersed; omitted; perfunctory; setting-off; indispensable; jutting; obstructing.

Verbs for Comma
designate by—; dot with—s; invert—; mark with—; pause at—; punctuate with—; —clarifies; —denotes; —indicates; —interrupts; —punctuates; —separates.

Derived terms

 * Harvard comma
 * inverted comma


 * Oxford comma
 * serial comma

Thesaurus
colon, dash, decimal point, diagonal, dot, ellipsis, exclamation mark, full stop, hyphen, interval, juncture, lull, parens, parentheses, pause, period, point, question mark, quotation marks, quotes, semicolon, single quotes, solidus, stop, virgule

Etymology
From comma: <  κόμμα: < κόπτω:

Translations

 * Arabic: فاصلة,
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian: zarez, zapeta
 * Bulgarian: запетая
 * Catalan: coma
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 逗號, 逗号, 逗點, 逗点, , , (special comma - "、")
 * Crimean Tatar: virgül
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: (kómma),
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:


 * Interlingua: virgula, comma
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: コンマ, 読点,, (only in horizontal writing)
 * Lower Sorbian: koma
 * Macedonian: запирка
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: зарез, запета
 * Roman: zarez, zapeta
 * Slovak: čiarka
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: virgül (1)
 * Upper Sorbian: koma


 * German:


 * Polish: rusałka ceik

Noun

 * 1)  subsection

Etymology
From κόμμα: (komma) < κόπτω: (koptō) "I cut"

Noun
comma


 * 1) piece, section