punto
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin punctum (“point”) via Italian and Spanish punto, from pungō (“to prick, to puncture”). Doublet of point, pointe, ponto, puncto, punctum, and punt.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈpʌntəʊ/, /ˈpʊntəʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]punto (plural puntos)
- (fencing) A hit or point.
- Alternative form: puncto
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee traverse, to see thee here, to see thee there, to see thee pass thy puncto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy distance, thy montant.
- (historical) A traditional small Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 0.16 mm.
Synonyms
[edit]- (fencing term): point, strike, hit
- (unit of length): Spanish point, point (Spanish contexts)
Coordinate terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- punto diritto: a direct or straight hit
- punto reverso, punto riverso: a back-handed strike
References
[edit]- “punto”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Verb
[edit]punto
Esperanto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Italian punto (“stitch”). Doublet of punkto, bunta, and poento.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]punto (accusative singular punton, plural puntoj, accusative plural puntojn)
- lace (fabric)
Further reading
[edit]- “punto”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
- “punto”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026
Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese punto, from Latin punctus. Cognate with Spanish punto, Portuguese ponto, and Catalan punt.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]punto m (plural puntos)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “ponto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “punto”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “punto”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “punto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “punto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “punto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Further reading
[edit]- “punto”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
Ido
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English point, French point, German Punkt, Italian punto, Russian пункт (punkt), Spanish punto, all ultimately from Latin punctum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]punto (plural punti)
- (geometry, astronomy, typography, grammar, music, games) point; dot; position; period; small hole (as made by a needle or awl)
Derived terms
[edit]- bipunto (“colon (:)”)
- departo-punto (“point of departure”)
- halto-punto (“stop”)
- incido-punto (“point of incidence”)
- kardinala punto (“(geography) cardinal point”)
- klamo-punto (“exclamation mark (!)”)
- kontakto-punto (“point of contact”)
- krizala punto (“critical point”)
- morto-punto (“point of death”)
- puntizado (“punctuation; dotting”)
- puntizar (“to dot, prick, mark (something) with a point; to punctuate”)
- puntizo-signo (“stop”)
- puntizuro (“punctuation; dotting”)
- punto-komo (“semicolon (;)”)
- questiono-punto (“question mark (?)”)
- repozo-punto (“(music) pause”)
- seko-punto (“point of intersection”)
- suto-punto (“stitch”)
- vido-punto (“viewpoint”)
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]punto m (plural punti)
- point (all senses), jot, iota
- full stop, period
- dot
- instant (point in time)
- (in the plural) points, score
- (baseball) run
- (surgery, sewing) stitch
- staple
Derived terms
[edit]Adverb
[edit]punto
- (Tuscan) reinforces negation: at all (cf. French point)
- Synonyms: affatto, per niente
- (Tuscan) a while, shortly, momentarily
- Synonym: poco
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XV”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 37-39; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- "O figliuol", disse, "qual di questa greggia
s’arresta punto, giace poi cent’anni
sanz’arrostarsi quando ’l foco il feggia.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Pronoun
[edit]punto
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]punto
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Participle
[edit]punto (feminine punta, masculine plural punti, feminine plural punte)
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish punto, from Latin pūnctum (“point”), from pungō (“to prick, puncture”). Cognate with Asturian puntu, Catalan punt Galician punto, Portuguese ponto.
Noun
[edit]punto m (plural puntos, diminutive puntillo or puntito)
- point (specific spot, location, or place)
- point (unit of scoring)
- Tienes cinco puntos.
- You have five points.
- Ese artículo cuesta tres puntos.
- That item costs three points.
- (grammar) point (full stop or period)
- (mathematics) point (decimal mark)
- (sewing) stitch (single pass of a needle in sewing or surgery suture)
- bombshell (great surprise or shock)
- (historical) punto, Spanish point (traditional small unit of length, equivalent to about 0.16 mm)
Coordinate terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- a buen punto
- a punto
- a punto de
- a punto de caramelo
- a punto de nieve
- a tal punto que
- aguja de punto
- al punto
- apuntar
- arco de medio punto
- arco de todo punto
- coche de punto
- con puntos y comas
- dar en el punto
- de punto
- de punto en blanco
- de todo punto
- dos puntos
- en punto
- en punto de
- en punto de caramelo
- en su punto (“at an all-time...; at its peak”)
- ganar muchos puntos, ganar puntos
- hasta cierto punto (“to a certain extent/degree, to some extent/degree”)
- hasta el punto de
- hasta tal punto que
- letra de dos puntos
- línea de puntos
- medio punto
- multipunto
- poner los puntos sobre los íes (“to dot one's I's”)
- por punto general
- por puntos
- producto punto
- puesta a punto
- puntal
- puntar
- puntear
- punto cardinal
- punto ciego
- punto crítico
- punto de anclaje
- punto de apoyo
- punto de articulación
- punto de condensación
- punto de congelación
- punto de cruz
- punto de ebullición
- punto de encuentro
- punto de entrada
- punto de fuga
- punto de golpeo
- punto de inflexión
- punto de interés
- punto de mira
- punto de no retorno
- punto de observación
- punto de partida
- punto de referencia
- punto de resistencia
- punto de rocío
- punto de vida
- punto de vista
- punto débil
- punto decimal
- punto en boca (“mum's the word; don't say a word”)
- punto fijo
- punto final
- punto flaco
- punto flotante
- punto fuerte
- punto G
- punto limpio
- punto medio
- punto menos
- punto muerto
- punto negro
- punto neurálgico
- punto por encima
- punto por punto (“point by point”)
- punto porcentual
- punto remoto
- punto tipográfico
- punto verde
- punto y aparte (“full stop, new paragraph”)
- punto y coma
- punto y seguido (“full stop, new paragraph”)
- puntos suspensivos
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Tagalog: punto
Interjection
[edit]¡punto!
- period, end of story
- that's it! (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
- Synonym: eso es
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]punto
Further reading
[edit]- “punto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
- Las expresiones: "a tal punto que", "a punto tal que", "a punto tal de que" ¿Cuál es la correcta?
Tagalog
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish punto, from Old Spanish punto, from Latin pūnctum, from pūnctus, perfect passive participle of pungō, from Proto-Italic *pungō, from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-. Doublet of puntos.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈpunto/ [ˈpun̪.t̪o], /punˈto/ [pʊn̪ˈt̪o]
- Rhymes: -unto, -o
- Syllabification: pun‧to
Noun
[edit]punto or puntó (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Noun
[edit]punto or puntó (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)
- (sociolinguistics) accent
- Synonym: asento
- (by extension) dialect
- Synonym: diyalekto
Further reading
[edit]- “punto”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.[1] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag., page 503: “Punto) Ponto (pc) C. Redondo que acaba el periodo”
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish پونطو (punto), from Italian punto. Doublet of puan.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]punto (definite accusative puntoyu, plural puntolar)
- (typography) font size
- 1962, Nâzım Hikmet, Vatan Haini [Traitor to the Homeland][2]:
- Yazın üç sütun üstüne kapkara haykıran puntolarla : / Nâzım Hikmet vatan hainliğine devam ediyor hâlâ.
- Write on three columns of jet-black font that cry: / Nâzım Hikmet continues to be a traitor to the homeland.
- the height of the heel of a shoe
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “punto”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms borrowed from Italian
- English terms derived from Italian
- English terms borrowed from Spanish
- English terms derived from Spanish
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Fencing
- English terms with quotations
- English terms with historical senses
- en:Units of measure
- en:Spain
- Catalan non-lemma forms
- Catalan verb forms
- Esperanto terms borrowed from Italian
- Esperanto terms derived from Italian
- Esperanto doublets
- Esperanto 2-syllable words
- Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation
- Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Esperanto/unto
- Rhymes:Esperanto/unto/2 syllables
- Esperanto lemmas
- Esperanto nouns
- eo:Textiles
- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms inherited from Latin
- Galician terms derived from Latin
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Galician/unto
- Rhymes:Galician/unto/2 syllables
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician masculine nouns
- gl:Grammar
- Ido terms borrowed from English
- Ido terms derived from English
- Ido terms borrowed from French
- Ido terms derived from French
- Ido terms borrowed from German
- Ido terms derived from German
- Ido terms borrowed from Italian
- Ido terms derived from Italian
- Ido terms borrowed from Russian
- Ido terms derived from Russian
- Ido terms borrowed from Spanish
- Ido terms derived from Spanish
- Ido terms derived from Latin
- Ido terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ido lemmas
- Ido nouns
- io:Geometry
- io:Astronomy
- io:Typography
- io:Grammar
- io:Music
- io:Games
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Italian terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/unto
- Rhymes:Italian/unto/2 syllables
- Italian terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Italian terms inherited from Latin
- Italian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pewǵ-
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- it:Baseball
- it:Surgery
- it:Sewing
- Italian adverbs
- Tuscan Italian
- Italian terms with quotations
- Italian pronouns
- Italian terms with usage examples
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian verb forms
- Italian past participles
- it:Punctuation marks
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/unto
- Rhymes:Spanish/unto/2 syllables
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pewǵ-
- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish terms with usage examples
- es:Grammar
- es:Mathematics
- es:Sewing
- Spanish terms with historical senses
- Spanish interjections
- Spanish non-lemma forms
- Spanish verb forms
- es:Punctuation marks
- es:Sports
- es:Units of measure
- Tagalog terms borrowed from Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pewǵ-
- Tagalog terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Tagalog terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Tagalog terms derived from Old Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from Latin
- Tagalog doublets
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/unto
- Rhymes:Tagalog/unto/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Tagalog/o
- Rhymes:Tagalog/o/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog terms with mabilis pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- tl:Sociolinguistics
- Turkish terms inherited from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Italian
- Turkish doublets
- Turkish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish nouns
- tr:Typography
- Turkish terms with quotations
