virgule

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French virgule, from Latin virgula (“twig; scratch comma”), from virga (“rod, branch”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix). Doublet of virgula.

1. A medieval punctuation mark similar to the slash ⟨/⟩ or pipe ⟨|⟩ and used as a scratch comma and caesura mark.

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

2. A slash, ⟨/⟩ or ⟨／⟩.
3. A slash, ⟨/⟩ or ⟨／⟩.
4. A pipe, ⟨|⟩.
5. A pipe, ⟨|⟩.