comma
noun /ˈkɒmə/
/ˈkɑːmə/
- the mark ( , ) used to separate the items in a list or to show where there is a slight break in a sentence
- The relative clause is separated by commas.
- You need to put a comma before ‘which’.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally as a term in rhetoric denoting a group of words shorter than a colon): via Latin from Greek komma ‘piece cut off, short clause’, from koptein ‘cut’.