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English
Punctuation marks

Etymology
From L. #Latin|comma < AGr. polytonic|κ�μμα (komma) < polytonic|κ���� (kopt�) "I cut"

Pronunciation
/k�'m�/, /�k�ma/, /"kQma/
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�m�|-�m�

Noun
en-noun

1. Punctuation mark indicating a pause between parts of a sentence or between elements in a list.
2. A North American butterfly of the genus Polygonia.

Translations
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Bosnian: zarez m, zapeta f
Chinese:

Crimean Tatar: virgül
Czech: t-|cs|�árka|f
Dutch: t+|nl|komma|f
Esperanto: t-|eo|komo|xs=Esperanto
Finnish: t+|fi|pilkku
French: t+|fr|virgule|f
German: t+|de|Komma|n, t+|de|Beistrich|m
Greek: t+|el|κ�μμα|n|sc=Grek (kómma)
Interlingua: virgula, #Interlingua|comma
Hebrew: t-|he|פס�ק|m|trpsyq|scHebr
Italian: t+|it|virgola|f
Lower Sorbian: koma f
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Polish: t-|pl|przecinek|m
Portuguese: t-|pt|vírgula|f
Romanian: t-|ro|virgul�|f
Russian: t-|ru|зап��а�|f|trzap'atája|scCyrl
Serbian:

Slovak: �iarka f
Slovene: t+|sl|vejica|f
Turkish: virgül (1)
Upper Sorbian: koma f
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trans-top|Butterfly
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ttbc|Basque: ziri, txotx
ttbc|Esperanto: komo
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ttbc|Ido: komo
ttbc|Korean: ��(Shuim pyo)
ttbc|Spanish: vírgula f, coma f (maybe only in Latin America)
ttbc|Swedish: komma n
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Derived terms
top2
Harvard comma
inverted comma
mid2
Oxford comma
serial comma

Italian

Noun
it-noun|comm|m|a|i

1. subsection (legal)

Latin

Etymology
From AGr.|la polytonic|κ�μμα (komma) < polytonic|κ���� (kopt�) "I cut"

Noun
comma

1. piece, section

Category:Latin nouns

de:comma
fr:comma
fy:comma
io:comma
id:comma
it:comma
no:comma
pl:comma
pt:comma
ru:comma
fi:comma
ta:comma
te:comma
vi:comma
zh:comma

• 2008-01-02 13:14 - Chloejr - added "Mandarin"

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