punctio
Latin
Etymology
From pungō + -tiō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpuːnk.ti.oː/, [ˈpuːŋkt̪ioː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpunk.t͡si.o/, [ˈpuŋkt̪͡s̪io]
Noun
pūnctiō f (genitive pūnctiōnis); third declension
- puncture, pricking
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pūnctiō | pūnctiōnēs |
| Genitive | pūnctiōnis | pūnctiōnum |
| Dative | pūnctiōnī | pūnctiōnibus |
| Accusative | pūnctiōnem | pūnctiōnēs |
| Ablative | pūnctiōne | pūnctiōnibus |
| Vocative | pūnctiō | pūnctiōnēs |
Derived terms
- *pūnctiāre
Descendants
- Old French: ponson, poncheon, ponchon
- Middle French: poinçon, poinson, poinchon
- French: poinçon
- Middle French: ponction, poncion
- French: ponction
- → Middle English: ponchon, punchon, ponchoun, punchoun
- English: puncheon
- Middle French: poinçon, poinson, poinchon
- Iberian:
- Spanish: punzón, punción
- Portuguese: punção
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Italian: punzone
- Sicilian: punzuni
- Old Occitan:
- Occitan: ponchon, ponchona
- Old Catalan: punxon
- Catalan: punxó
- Venetian: polxón
- → Russian: пункция (punkcija)
References
- “punctio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- punctio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- punctio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “púnctio” in Leo F. Stelten, editor (1995) Dictionary of ecclesiastical Latin: with an appendix of Latin expressions defined and clarified, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, page 216