Comma

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See also coma

Contents

English

Punctuation marks

apostrophe ( ' ) ( )
brackets ( ( ) ) ( [ ] ) ( { } ) ( ⟨ ⟩ )
colon ( : )
comma ( , )
dashes ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
ellipsis ( ) ( ... )
exclamation mark ( ! )
full stop/period ( . )
hyphen ( - ) ( )
interrobang ( )
question mark ( ? )
quotation marks ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” )
semicolon ( ; )
slash/solidus ( / )
space (   ) and interpunct ( · )

Other typographer's marks

ampersand ( & )
asterisk ( * ) and asterism ( )
at ( @ )
backslash ( \ )
bullet ( , more )
dagger ( † ‡ )
degrees ( ° )
number sign ( # )
prime ( )
tilde ( ~ )
underscore ( _ )
vertical bar/pipe ( | )

Pronunciation

  • /kŏ'mə/, /ˈkɒma/, /"kQma/

Noun

comma (commas)

  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.

Derived terms

Translations


Latin

Etymology

Greek κόμμα (komma)

Noun

comma

  1. piece, section

Italian

Noun

comma f

  1. article, section

fr:comma io:comma it:comma no:comma pl:comma pt:comma fi:comma zh:comma

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