punkt

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

punkt

Wikipedia ^cs

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech punkt, from Latin pūnctum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

punkt m inan

1. (archaic) point, dot
2. period, full stop (diacritic mark)

Declension

Synonyms

• tečka

Related terms

Further reading

• punkt in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• punkt in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Via Middle Low German punct, punt from Latin pūnctum (“point”), the neuter of the participle of pungere (“to puncture”). The Low German word was also borrowed to late Old Norse punktr and Swedish punktr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poŋˀt/,

Noun

punkt n (singular definite punktet, plural indefinite punkter)

1. dot
2. point (in space, on some scale or in some mathematical space)

Declension

Derived terms

References

• “punkt” in Den Danske Ordbog

Estonian

Noun

punkt (genitive punkti, partitive punkti)

1. article (of clothing)
2. dot, point
3. item
4. period, full stop

Declension

Further reading

• “punkt”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Icelandic

Noun

punkt m

1. indefinite accusative singular of punktur

Masurian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish punkt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Syllabification: punkt

Noun

punkt m inan (diminutive punkczik or punktek)

1. point (discernable dot against a background of other things)
2. point (particular place)
3. point (element of a list)

Adverb

punkt (not comparable)

1. on the dot (exactly at a particular hour, neither earlier nor later)

Further reading

• Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2021) “I. punkt, II. punkt”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur‎, volume 8, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, page 78

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse punktr, from Middle Low German punct, punt, from Latin pūnctum (“point, puncture, moment”), from pūnctus (“pricked, punctured”), perfect passive participle of pungō (“I prick, puncture, punch”), from Proto-Italic *pungō (“to prick, sting”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to prick, punch”).

Noun

punkt n (definite singular punktet, indefinite plural punkt or punkter, definite plural punkta or punktene)

1. (generally) point
2. a dot (also in Braille: a raised dot)

Derived terms

References

• “punkt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse punktr.

Noun

punkt n (definite singular punktet, indefinite plural punkt, definite plural punkta)

1. (generally) point
2. a dot (also in Braille: a raised dot)

Derived terms

References

• “punkt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Czech

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūnctum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈpunkt/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈpunkt/

Noun

punkt m inan

1. point, degree, unit
2. (administration) point; paragraph

Declension

Descendants

• Czech: punkt

References

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “punkt”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

punkt

Wikipedia ^pl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puŋkt/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈpuŋkt/

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• Rhymes: -uŋkt
• Syllabification: punkt

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin pūnctum. First attested in 1566. Doublet of puenta.

Noun

punkt m inan (diminutive punkcik, abbreviation p. or pkt)

1. point (discernable dot against a background of other things)

   Near-synonym: kropka

2. (mathematics, sciences) point (zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction)
3. point (place designated for a particular task)

   Synonym: miejsce

4. point (stage of some action)
5. point (element of a list)
6. (literary) point (part of a written or oral statement)
7. (board games, sports, video games) point (unit of scoring in a game or competition)
8. point (distinguishing quality or characteristic)
9. (editorial) point (basic unit of measurement of the length or size of fonts and other elements used in printing, approximately equal to, depending on the calculation system used, from 0.35 to 0.37 millimeters)
10. point (position on an issue)
11. point (spatial or temporal border)
12. (obsolete) task

    Synonym: zadanie

13. (obsolete) order, command

    Synonym: rozkaz

14. (obsolete, anatomy) duct, particularly tear duct
15. (obsolete, cartography) cardinal direction
16. (obsolete, billiards) hole on a billiards table
17. (obsolete) bay

    Synonyms: haf, zatoka

18. (Middle Polish) section of text; paragraph; article
19. (Middle Polish) issue, affair, matter, business, thing

    Synonyms: kwestia, rzecz, sprawa

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → Masurian: punkt

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), punkt is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 128 times in scientific texts, 54 times in news, 73 times in essays, 13 times in fiction, and 16 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 284 times, making it the 179th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of punkt w punkt. First attested in the 19th century.

Adverb

punkt (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) on the dot (exactly at a particular hour, neither earlier nor later)

   Synonym: punktualnie

References

Further reading

• punkt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• punkt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “PUNKT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 03.06.2009
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “punkt”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “punkt”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Punkt.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pûnkt/

Noun

pȕnkt m (Cyrillic spelling пу̏нкт)

1. (regional) dot
2. (regional) place
3. (regional) spot
4. (regional) point

Declension

References

• “punkt” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin pūnctum through Old Norse punktr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɵŋ(k)t/

Noun

punkt c

1. a period, a full stop
2. an item (on a list or an agenda)
3. (typography) a point; size of a font
4. (geometry) a point
5. a point, a spot (small location, seen as a position)
6. (figuratively) a point (in time)

   tidpunkt

   point in time

7. a dot; one of the two symbols used in Morse code
8. (finance) basis point, one hundredth of one percentage point

Declension

Related terms

Interjection

punkt

1. period

   Synonym: punkt slut

References

• punkt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• punkt in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)