semicolon

Discussion

EnglishEdit

Wikipedia has an article on:

Semicolon

Alternative formsEdit

semi-colon

EtymologyEdit

From semi- +‎ colon.

PronunciationEdit

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˌsemiˈkəʊlən/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈsemikoʊlən/

NounEdit

semicolon (plural semicolons or semicola)

The punctuation mark ';' .
A semicolon is followed by an initial lower-case letter (unless for proper nouns).

See alsoEdit

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
braces (publishing, music, programming) ( { } )
brackets (publishing, programming) ( [ ] )
colon ( : )

comma ( , )
dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
ellipsis ( … )
exclamation mark ( ! )
full stop (British) or period (North America) ( . )
guillemets (publishing) ( « » )

hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
interpunct (publishing, web design) ( · )
interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
parentheses ( ( ) )

question mark ( ? )
quotation marks (formal, British) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” )
quotation marks (informal, North America, computing) ( " ) ( ' )

semicolon ( ; )
slash ( / )
solidus (dated, mathematics) ( ⁄ )
space ( )

TranslationsEdit

punctuation mark ';'

Arabic: ؛, فاصلة منقوطة f (faaSila manquuTa)
Armenian: կետ-ստորակետ (ket-storaket)
Asturian: puntu y coma m
Catalan: punt i coma m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 分號, 分号 (zh) (fēnhào), ；
Czech: středník m
Danish: semikolon (da) n
Dutch: puntkomma (nl) f, n, kommapunt (nl) m
Esperanto: punktokomo
Estonian: semikoolon
Faroese: semikolon n
Finnish: puolipiste (fi)
French: point-virgule (fr) m
Galician: punto e coma m
German: Strichpunkt (de) m, Semikolon (de) n
Greek: άνω τελεία (el) f (áno teleía) (áno teleía), (in relevance to the Greek language) ερωτηματικό (el) n (erotimatikó) (erotimatikó)
Hebrew: נקודה ופסיק (he)
Hungarian: pontosvessző (hu)

Interlingua: puncto e virgula
Italian: punto e virgola m
Japanese: セミコロン (semikoron), ； (ja)
Kazakh: нүктелі үтір (nükteli ütir)
Macedonian: точка-запирка f (tóčka-zápirka)
Norwegian: semikolon c
Pashto: ؛
Persian: ؛, نقطه‌ویرگول (noqte-virgul)
Polish: średnik (pl) m
Portuguese: ponto-e-vírgula m
Romanian: punct și virgulă (ro)
Russian: точка с запятой (ru) f (tóčka s zapjatój)
Scottish Gaelic: leth-chòilean m
Slovak: bodkočiarka f
Slovene: podpičje (sl) n
Spanish: punto y coma m
Swahili: alama ya nuktamkato (sw)
Swedish: semikolon (sv) c
Turkish: noktalı virgül (tr)
Urdu: ؛

See alsoEdit

; Greek question mark

Read in another language

Last modified on 10 January 2014, at 11:01