virgil
/ˈvɝdʒɪl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
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Pūblius Vergilius Marō (70–19 BCE), Roman epic writer from the Augustan period, best known for writing the Aeneid.
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A settlement in the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
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Example Sentences
- "A wedding dance at the Avon Ballroom on July 22nd for Mary Paterek and Virgil Loucks (imagine, a youth named Virgil, he must be the youngest Virgil in Minnesota, maybe the last of the Virgil line)."
- "There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative... it is a slender stroke leaning forward, betokening a little short rest, without any perfectness yet of sentence."
- "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."
- "Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century."
- "Other Chaucerian manuscripts had the virgule (or virgil or oblique: /) at the middle of lines."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈvɝdʒɪl/
- British English: /ˈvɜːdʒɪl/
Usage
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