punctus
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin punctus (“punctuation mark”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpʌŋktəs/
Noun
punctus
- (palaeography) The basic dot (‧) used to end a sentence in medieval punctuation (ancestral to the full stop/period).
- 1993, Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, Pause and Effect, Plates and Commentaries, page 197:
- In the sacerdotal prayers in col. a the punctuation is by punctus flexus, punctus elevatus and punctus.
- 2011 July 22, Tadao Kudouchi, Akio Oizumi; Jacek Fisiak, editors, English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 172:
- The most common item of punctuation was the punctus or point.
- 2015 August 31, “Medieval Manuscripts”, in Albrecht Classen, editor, Handbook of Medieval Culture, volume 2, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1015:
- Curiously, the punctus versus was largely replaced with a punctus by ca.1100.
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See also
- punctus circumflexus
- punctus elevatus
- punctus flexus
- punctus interrogativus
- punctus percontativus
- punctus versus
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpuːnk.tus/, [ˈpuːŋkt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpunk.tus/, [ˈpuŋkt̪us]
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of pungō (“I prick, puncture, punch”).
Participle
pūnctus (feminine pūncta, neuter pūnctum, adverb pūnctim); first/second-declension participle
- pricked, punctured, pierced, having been pricked.
- marked with points; stippled.
- stung, bitten, pinched, having been affected sensibly.
- vexed, annoyed, grieved, troubled, disturbed, having been vexed or annoyed.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | pūnctus | pūncta | pūnctum | pūnctī | pūnctae | pūncta | |
Genitive | pūnctī | pūnctae | pūnctī | pūnctōrum | pūnctārum | pūnctōrum | |
Dative | pūnctō | pūnctō | pūnctīs | ||||
Accusative | pūnctum | pūnctam | pūnctum | pūnctōs | pūnctās | pūncta | |
Ablative | pūnctō | pūnctā | pūnctō | pūnctīs | |||
Vocative | pūncte | pūncta | pūnctum | pūnctī | pūnctae | pūncta |
Derived terms
Derived terms
- interpūnctus
- pūnctillum
- pūnctiō
- pūnctulum
- pūnctum
Descendants
- Asturian: puntu
- Catalan: punt, punta
- English: point
- French: point, pointe
- Friulian: pont, ponte
- Galician: punto, punta
- German: Punkt, bunt (possibly)
- Italian: punto, punta
- Occitan: ponch, poncha
- Portuguese: ponto, ponta
- Sicilian: puntu
- Spanish: punto, punta
- Venetian: ponto
Noun
pūnctus m (genitive pūnctī); second declension
- (Late Latin, New Latin; also mathematics) point
- Alternative form: pūnctum n
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pūnctus | pūnctī |
Genitive | pūnctī | pūnctōrum |
Dative | pūnctō | pūnctīs |
Accusative | pūnctum | pūnctōs |
Ablative | pūnctō | pūnctīs |
Vocative | pūncte | pūnctī |
Etymology 2
From pungō + -tus.
Noun
pūnctus m (genitive pūnctūs); fourth declension
- a pricking, stinging, puncture
- (dubious) a point
- Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.68, Jean Harduin, editor, Caii Plinii Secundi historiae naturalis libri XXXVII […], volume 1, published 1741, Paris, p. 107:
- Hae tot portiones terrae, immo vero, ut plures tradidere, 15mundi punctus: ( neque enim aliud est terra in universo: )
- Notae. [...] 15. Mundi punctus.] Acutum illud est Senecae dictum, lib. I. Natur. quaest. in prooem. pag. 831. Hoc est illud punctum, quod inter tot gentes ferro & igni dividitur. O quam ridiculi sunt mortalium termini, &c.
- Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.68, Jean Harduin, editor, Caii Plinii Secundi historiae naturalis libri XXXVII […], volume 1, published 1741, Paris, p. 107:
- (Medieval Latin) punctuation mark
Usage notes
- (point): In older editions of Pliny mundi punctus (with punctus as a 4th-declension noun) appears, while in more recent editions it is mundi puncto (with punctum or punctus as 2nd-declension noun); compare Citations:puncto.
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pūnctus | pūnctūs |
Genitive | pūnctūs | pūnctuum |
Dative | pūnctuī | pūnctibus |
Accusative | pūnctum | pūnctūs |
Ablative | pūnctū | pūnctibus |
Vocative | pūnctus | pūnctūs |
Synonyms
- (a pricking): pūnctiō
- (a point): pūnctum
Descendants
- → English: punctus
Related terms
Related terms
- punctim
- punctiō
- punctiuncula
- punctūra
- pungō
References
- “punctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- punctus 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)
- punctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- in an instant: puncto temporis
- to obtain many (few) votes in a century or tribe: multa (pauca) puncta in centuria (tribu) aliqua ferre
- in an instant: puncto temporis