pointe

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See also: Pointe and pointé

English

Etymology

From French pointe (“point, tip”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pwæ̃t/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /pwɑnt/, /pɔɪnt/
  • Rhymes: -ɑnt, -ɔɪnt

Noun

pointe (countable and uncountable, plural pointes)

  1. (ballet) The tip of the toe; a ballet position executed with the tip of the toe.
    • 2007: Classical dance manages to get along without too many momentous events shuddering beneath its pointe work. — The Guardian 5th Jan 2007, p. 3

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Danish

Etymology

From French pointe, from Late Latin puncta, the feminine of the participle pūnctus (“pointed”). Cognate with pointe (from French), punkt and punktum (both from Latin punctum), as well as punktere (from Latin punctuo).

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Noun

pointe c (singular definite pointen, plural indefinite pointer)

  1. point (argument, punchline)

Dutch

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Etymology

From French pointe.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: poin‧te

Noun

pointe f or m (plural pointes)

  1. (comedy) punchline
    Synonym: clou

Finnish

Etymology

From French.

Pronunciation

Noun

pointe

  1. (ballet) pointe

Declension

Preferably not inflected. Compound term pointe-asento is used in inflected forms, in which case only asento is inflected.

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French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Late Latin puncta, from the feminine form of Latin punctus, perfect passive participle of pungō (“to prick”).

Noun

pointe f (plural pointes)

  1. point (clarification of this definition is needed)
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Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pointe

  1. inflection of pointer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Irish

Etymology

From Old French point (“dot; minute amount”), from Latin pūnctum (“a hole punched in; a point, puncture”). Doublet of ponc.

Pronunciation

Noun

pointe m (genitive singular pointe, nominative plural pointí)

  1. dot
  2. (sports, games, mathematics) point
  3. (Gaelic games) point, scored by driving the ball over the crossbar of the goalpost, as opposed to a goal, worth three points, scored by driving the ball under the crossbar
    Synonym: cúilín
  4. (cricket) point, fielding position between gully and cover

Declension

Declension of pointe

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pointe pointí
Vocative a phointe a phointí
Genitive pointe pointí
Dative pointe pointí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an pointe na pointí
Genitive an phointe na bpointí
Dative leis an bpointe

don phointe

leis na pointí

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Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
pointe phointe bpointe
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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