comma – English noun declension

English noun forms of comma

Noun: comma
Singularcomma
Pluralcommas

Sample Sentences

  • No points were used by the ancient printers, excepting the colon and the period; but, after some time, a short oblique stroke, called a virgil, was introduced, which answered to the modern comma. In the fifteenth century this punctuation was improved by the famous Aldus Manutius with the typographical art in general; when he gave a better shape to the comma, added the semicolon, and assigned to the former points more proper places. [1828, Richard Thomson, Illustrations of the History of Great Britain, Vol. II, pp. 145–6]
  • Commas (Polygonia comma) and Question Marks (Polygonia interrogationis) occur from the Gulf Coast to Canada and west to the Rockies. [...] Question Marks and Commas are handsome butterflies with burnt orange and black markings. [...] On the underside of each hind wing of the Comma is a small, distinctive silver hook that resembles a comma. [2004, Scott Shalaway, “Close-ups”, in Butterflies in the Backyard, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 18:]
  • Other members of this genus that are frequently encountered in the park are the eastern comma (P. comma) and question mark (P. interrogationis). [2013, Ann Simpson, Rob Simpson, “Butterflies and Moths”, in Nature Guide to Shenandoah National Park (Falcon Pocket Guide), Guilford, Conn.; Helena, Mont.: Falcon Guides, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 91:]

Nouns inflected like comma

comma,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Ancient Greek κόπτω (kóptō)
3. Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
4. Proto-Hellenic *-mə
5. Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
6. Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma)
7. Latin commabor.
8. English comma
9. From Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma), from κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”). See: Latin Nouns 'comma', Ancient Greek Nouns 'κόμμα'.

Verbs referencing "comma"

Norwegian Bokmål Nouns komma.