puño

• punho (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese punno, puno, from Latin pugnus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuɲo̝/

puño m (plural puños)

1. fist
   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: CSIC, page 117:

     Ferragudo desque a perdeu coudou a matar Rrulan, et çarrou o puño et doulle cõ el ẽna cabeça do caualo et matoullo.

     Ferragut, as soon as he lost it, decided to kill Roland; and he closed his fist and stroke it on the horse's head, killing it

2. handle

   Synonyms: empuñadura, mazá, pomo

3. fistful

   Synonyms: presa, puñado

4. cuff (of a shirt, etc.)

• puñada
• puñal
• puñazo

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “puño”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “puñ”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “puño”, 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), “puño”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “puño”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “puño”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

puño

1. first-person singular present indicative of puñar

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuɲo/

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• Rhymes: -uɲo
• Syllabification: pu‧ño

Inherited from Latin pugnus, from Proto-Italic *pugnos, from Proto-Indo-European *puǵnos, Proto-Indo-European *puḱnos, from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“prick, punch”). Compare English poniard.

puño m (plural puños)

1. fist (hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward)
2. fistful, handful, bunch (amount that can be contained in the hand)
3. wristband, cuff (end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist)
4. handle, hilt (part of a tool, weapon, or other object, that is designed to be held in the hand when used)

• →⇒? Murui Huitoto: pute

puño

1. first-person singular present indicative of puñar

• “puño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014