English Dictionary

virgule

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈvəː.ɡjuːl/

名詞

歴史的 廃用 古風

(typography, obsolete or historical) A medieval punctuation mark similar to the slash ⟨/⟩ or pipe ⟨ Unsupported titles/Vertical line ⟩ and used as a scratch comma and caesura mark.

日本語の意味

中世の活版や写本などで用いられた句読点で、斜線（/）や縦線に類似した形状を持ち、書写時の誤記の補正用コンマや句の切れ目（カエシュラ、caesura）を示すために使用された記号

In the illuminated manuscript, the scribe marked the line break with a small virgule between the words.

装飾写本で、筆写者は語と語の間に小さな斜線に似た中世の句読点を打って行を区切った。

意味（1）

(typography, obsolete or historical) A medieval punctuation mark similar to the slash ⟨/⟩ or pipe ⟨ Unsupported titles/Vertical line ⟩ and used as a scratch comma and caesura mark.

Other Chaucerian manuscripts had the virgule (or virgil or oblique: /) at the middle of lines.

意味（2）

(typography, dated) A slash, ⟨/⟩ or ⟨／⟩, particularly (literature) in its use to mark line breaks within quotes.

意味（3）

(typography, dated) A pipe, ⟨ Unsupported titles/Vertical line ⟩, particularly (poetry) in its use to mark metrical feet.

virgules （ plural ）