Etymology

comma

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Today it means: The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list. Full definition →

Latin comma ← Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma) ← Proto-Hellenic *kopt͏̌ō
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kep-?
  2. Proto-Hellenic*kopt͏̌ō
  3. Ancient Greekκόπτω (kóptō)
  4. Ancient Greekκόμμα (kómma)
  5. Latincomma
  6. English todaycomma

From Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma), from κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”).

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