virgil

See also: Virgil

English

Etymology

An anglicization of French virgule, from Latin virgula.

Noun

virgil (plural virgils)

(typography, UK, archaic) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
- 1824, J. Johnson, Typographia:
  There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative... it is a slender stroke leaning forward, betokening a little short rest, without any perfectness yet of sentence.
- 1828, Richard Thomson, Illustrations of the History of Great Britain, Vol. II, page 145:
  No points were used by the ancient printers, excepting the colon and the period; but, after some time, a short oblique stroke, called a virgil, was introduced, which answered to the modern comma.
- 1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9:
  Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.
- 1990, John McDermott, Punctuation for Now, page 20:
  Other Chaucerian manuscripts had the virgule (or virgil or oblique: /) at the middle of lines.

单词	virgil
释义	virgil See also: Virgil English Etymology An anglicization of French virgule, from Latin virgula. Noun virgil (plural virgils) (typography, UK, archaic) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩. 1824, J. Johnson, Typographia: There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative... it is a slender stroke leaning forward, betokening a little short rest, without any perfectness yet of sentence. 1828, Richard Thomson, Illustrations of the History of Great Britain, Vol. II, page 145: No points were used by the ancient printers, excepting the colon and the period; but, after some time, a short oblique stroke, called a virgil, was introduced, which answered to the modern comma. 1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9: Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century. 1990, John McDermott, Punctuation for Now, page 20: Other Chaucerian manuscripts had the virgule (or virgil or oblique: /) at the middle of lines. See also Punctuation apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) curly brackets or braces (US) ( { } ) square brackets or brackets (US) ( [ [[Unsupported titles/Right square bracket#Translingual\|]]] ) colon ( : ) comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … ) exclamation mark ( ! ) fraction slash ( ⁄ ) guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › ) hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ ) interpunct ( · ) interrobang (rare) ( ‽ ) brackets or parentheses (US, Canada) ( ( ) ) full stop or period (US, Canada) ( . ) question mark ( ? ) quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ ) quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' ) semicolon ( ; ) slash or stroke (UK) ( / ) space ( )
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