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English
Etymology
From Latin virgula, a diminutive of virga ‘rod’.
Pronunciation
Adjective
virgular (comparative more virgular, superlative most virgular)
- 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).