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Italian
Verb
interpungo
- first-person singular present indicative of interpungere
Latin
Etymology
inter (“between”) + pungō (“I prick, puncture, or sting”)
Pronunciation
Verb
interpungō (present infinitive interpungere, perfect active interpūnxī, supine interpūnctum); third conjugation
- (transitive) to place points between words, to point or punctuate
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References
- “interpungo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- interpungo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 845/1.