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Latin
Etymology
From pungō + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
pūnctiō f (genitive pūnctiōnis); third declension
- puncture, pricking
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
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