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English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin pūnctum dēlēns.
Noun
punctum delens (plural puncta delentia)
- (orthography) A dot placed above a letter to indicate that it is a copying error and should be ignored.
- (orthography) A dot placed above a consonant in Irish, when it is written in Gaelic script, to indicate that the consonant is lenited.
Latin
Etymology
From pūnctum (“point, dot”) + dēlēns, present active participle of dēleō (“delete”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pūnctum dēlēns n (genitive pūnctī dēlentis); second declension
- (orthography) a punctum delens; mark made to indicate that a written character is an error to be ignored.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter) with a third-declension adjective.
Descendants