English Explanatory Dictionary

Virgil

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

/ˈvɜːdʒɪl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Virgil.wav /ˈvɝdʒɪl/

Word forms

Virgil Vergil virgils

Etymology

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

Synonyms

slash

Related words

apostrophe curly brackets brace square bracket bracket colon comma dash ellipsis exclamation mark fraction slash guillemet hyphen interpunct interrobang parentheses (US Canada) full stop period question mark quotation marks semicolon slash stroke space

Translations

Afrikaans: Vergilius Albanian: Vergili Arabic: فِرْجِيل Arabic: فَرْقِيلَش Aragonese: Virchilio Armenian: Վերգիլիոս Armenian: Վիրգիլիոս Asturian: Virxiliu Bulgarian: Верги́лий Catalan: Virgili Chinese Mandarin: 维吉尔 Dutch: Vergilius Esperanto: Virgilio Esperanto: Vergilio Finnish: Vergilius French: Virgile Middle French: Vergile Galician: Virxilio German: Vergil Greek: Βιργίλιος Greek: Βεργίλιος Hungarian: Vergilius Icelandic: Virgill Indonesian: Vergilius Italian: Virgilio Japanese: ウェルギリウス Latin: Vergilius Latin: Virgilius Latvian: Vergilijs Lithuanian: Vergilijus Malay: Vergil Middle English: Vyrgyle Polish: Wergiliusz Portuguese: Virgílio Romanian: Virgiliu Russian: Верги́лий Slovene: Vergilij Spanish: Virgilio Swedish: Vergilius Ukrainian: Вергі́лій Ukrainian: Верґі́лій Welsh: Fferyll Yiddish: ווירגיל Yiddish: ווערגיל
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