Comma (rhetoric)

In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a comma (κόμμα komma, plural κόμματα kommata) is a short clause, something less than a colon. The plural of ‘’’comma’’’ in English is ‘’’commata’’’.

In the system of Aristophanes of Byzantium, commata were separated by middle interpuncts.

In antiquity, a comma was defined as a combination of words that has no more than eight syllables.

There is a short text which arguably could have been inserted in the first epistle of John called the Johannine Comma.