Dictionary Definition
comma
Noun
1 a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the
separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a
sentence
2 anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on
the underside of each hind wing [syn: comma
butterfly, Polygonia
comma]
User Contributed Dictionary
Pronunciation
- /kŏ'mə/, /ˈkɒma/, /"kQma/
- Rhymes: -ɒmə
Noun
- Punctuation mark indicating a pause between parts of a sentence or between elements in a list.
- A North American butterfly of the genus Polygonia.
Translations
Punctuation
- Bosnian: zarez , zapeta
- Chinese:
- Crimean Tatar: virgül
- Czech: čárka
- Dutch: komma
- Esperanto: komo
- Finnish: pilkku
- French: virgule
- German: Komma, Beistrich
- Greek: κόμμα (kómma)
- Hebrew: פסיק
- Interlingua: virgula, comma
- Italian: virgola
- Lower Sorbian: koma
- Polish: przecinek
- Portuguese: vírgula
- Romanian: virgulă
- Russian: запятая
- Serbian:
- Slovak: čiarka
- Slovene: vejica
- Spanish: coma
- Turkish: virgül (1)
- Upper Sorbian: koma
Butterfly
- German: C-Falter
Translations to be categorised
Noun
- subsection (legal)
Latin
Etymology
From (komma) < (koptō) "I cut"Noun
commaExtensive Definition
Comma may refer to:
- Comma (punctuation), a punctuation mark (,)
- Comma (music), a type of interval in music theory
- Comma (butterfly), a species of butterfly
- Comma (rhetoric), a short clause in Greek rhetoric
- Comma operator, an operator in C and other related programming languages
comma in French: Comma
comma in Indonesian: Koma
comma in Italian: Comma
comma in Swedish: Komma
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
ampersand, angle brackets,
apostrophe, boundary, braces, caesura, 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