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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Latin
Origin: 'part of a sentence', from Greek komma 'part, clause', from koptein 'to cut'

comma

 noun
     
Related topics: Letters and punctuation
com‧ma [countable]
SLA the mark (,) used in writing to show a short pause or to separate things in a list
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