virgular

English

Etymology

From Latin virgula, a diminutive of virga ‘rod’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɜːɡjʊlə/

Adjective

virgular (comparative more virgular, superlative most virgular)

1. made up of thin lines or strokes, usually with reference to an alphabet or writing system
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     The increasing simplification traceable from the Egyptian epigraphic hieroglyphs to the Greek and Roman alphabets and the anticipation of modern stenography and telegraphic code in the cuneiform inscriptions (Semitic) and the virgular quinquecostate ogham writing (Celtic).