virgula

plural virgulas · plural virgulae

1. A small, thin, straight growth
   1. obsoletebiologyThe spines of a ray.
   2. obsoletebiologyThe sicula of a graptolite.
2. obsoleteA divining or dowsing rod.
3. rareAny small rod.

   Synonyms: stick

4. raremediaSynonym of virgule: a punctuation mark.

   A Point with a Virgula, call'd a Semicolon.

   1728, Ephraim Chambers, “Point”, in Cyclopædia

   1 more example

   The full stop or, instead, a virgula, i.e. a short slanting strike (/) is used... to mark the end of a sentence or of a portion of a sentence followed by a pause.

   1934, Robert C. Priebsch et al., chapter X, in The German Language, volume II, page 380

   Synonyms: virgule

5. obsoleteentertainmentSynonym of stem: the tail of a note.

   Synonyms: stem

6. historicalobsoleteentertainmentSynonym of virga: one of the neumes of medieval musical notation.

   Synonyms: virga