virgil means Pūblius Vergilius Marō (70–19 BCE), Roman epic writer from the Augustan period, best known for writing the Aeneid. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 74 out of 100.
virgil is pronounced /ˈvɜːdʒɪl/.
Etymology
From Middle English Vyrgyle, from Latin Virgilius, from the Roman clan name Vergilius, from Etruscan and of unknown meaning.
name
- Pūblius Vergilius Marō (70–19 BCE), Roman epic writer from the Augustan period, best known for writing the Aeneid.
- 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).”
- A settlement in the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
- A place in the United States:; A township and village therein, in Kane County, Illinois.
- A place in the United States:; A minor city in Greenwood County, Kansas.
- A place in the United States:; A town and census-designated place therein, in Cortland County, New York.
noun
- 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 forward, betokening a little short rest, without any perfectness yet of sentence.”