The story
- Latin · derived fromvirgula“twig; scratch comma”
- Middle French · borrowed fromvirgule
- English todayvirgule
Borrowed from Middle French virgule, from Latin virgula (“twig; scratch comma”), from virga (“rod, branch”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix). Doublet of virgula.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.