Virgil

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Virgil¹

  • /ˈvɜːdʒɪl/ UK
  • /ˈvɝdʒɪl/ US

Where it comes from

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

proper noun Vergil

  1. Pūblius Vergilius Marō (70–19 BCE), Roman epic writer from the Augustan period, best known for writing the Aeneid.
  2. US, mainly A male given name from Latin. 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. A settlement in the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
  4. A township and village therein, in Kane County, Illinois.
  5. A minor city in Greenwood County, Kansas.
  6. A town and census-designated place therein, in Cortland County, New York.
  7. A small town in Beadle County, South Dakota.
  8. An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia.

virgil²

Where it comes from

An anglicization of French virgule, from Latin virgula.

noun virgils

  1. UK, archaic Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩. 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

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