Virgil

//ˈvɝdʒɪl// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Pūblius Vergilius Marō (70–19 BCE), Roman epic writer from the Augustan period, best known for writing the Aeneid.
  2. 2
    A male given name from Latin. US, mainly

    "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)."

  3. 3
    A settlement in the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
  4. 4
    A place in the United States:; A township and village therein, in Kane County, Illinois.
  5. 5
    A place in the United States:; A minor city in Greenwood County, Kansas.
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  1. 6
    A place in the United States:; A town and census-designated place therein, in Cortland County, New York.
  2. 7
    A place in the United States:; A small town in Beadle County, South Dakota.
  3. 8
    A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia.
Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩. UK, archaic

    "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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English Vyrgyle, from Latin Virgilius, from the Roman clan name Vergilius, from Etruscan and of unknown meaning.

Etymology 2

An anglicization of French virgule, from Latin virgula.

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