punta

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punta (uncountable)

1. A Garifuna style of festive music and dance.

• Anput, tupan, unapt, untap

Borrowed from Spanish punta.

• IPA^(key): /punta/
• Rhymes: -unta
• Hyphenation: pun‧ta

punta inan

1. peak, tip

• “punta”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “punta”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Inherited from Late Latin puncta, from the feminine of Latin punctus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

punta f (plural puntes)

1. point, tip
2. pinch, bit (small amount)
3. peak, top
4. point, purpose, reason
5. lace

   Synonym: randa

• punt

• “punta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

punta

1. inflection of puntar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Proto-Finnic *punta (“old unit of weight”) (compare Estonian pund, Livonian pūnda), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), itself from Latin pondō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuntɑ/,
• Rhymes: -untɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): pun‧ta

punta

1. pound (currency)
2. (rare, archaic) Synonym of pauna (“pound (unit of weight)”)

• “punta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• pantu, patun, punat

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ponta, from Late Latin puncta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpunta/
• Rhymes: -unta
• Hyphenation: pun‧ta

punta m (plural puntas)

1. tip, point, end

   Synonym: cabo

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpˠʌn̪ˠt̪ˠə/^[1]

punta m (genitive singular punta, nominative plural puntaí)

1. punt (boat)

• puint

punta

1. Cois Fharraige form of puint (“pounds”)

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From Late Latin puncta, from the feminine of Latin punctus. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpun.ta/
• Rhymes: -unta
• Hyphenation: pùn‧ta

punta f (plural punte)

1. point, head, tip, top, peak, end

   Synonyms: estremità, cima, testa

2. toe (of a shoe)
3. pinch, touch, hint (small quantity)

   Synonyms: pizzico, tocco, accenno

4. bit (of a drill)
5. (soccer) forward, striker, attacker

   Synonym: attaccante

6. pile (of arrow or spear)
7. scriber

• punto

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

punta

1. inflection of puntare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Spanish punta.

The word "punda" is an obsolete variation.

punta

1. point

• IPA^(key): /ˈpunta/
• Rhymes: -unta
• Syllabification: pun‧ta

Inherited from Late Latin puncta, from the feminine of Latin punctus.

punta f (plural puntas)

1. tip, point, end

   la punta del iceberg ― the tip of the iceberg

2. pinch, bit (small amount)

   Synonym: pizco

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

punta

1. inflection of puntar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “punta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Possibly from Spanish puntar (“point”) or Spanish apuntar (“aim”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /punˈta/
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: pun‧ta

puntá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. destination, direction

   Synonyms: patutunguhan, paroroonan

   Saan ang punta mo?

   Where will you go? (lit. Where is your destination?)

Borrowed from Spanish punta.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpunta/
• Rhymes: -unta
• Syllabification: pun‧ta

punta (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. point, end

   Synonyms: dunggit, dulo

2. (geology) headland, promontory
3. (colloquial) aim, purpose

   Synonyms: layon, layunin, hangad, hangarin, intensyon, pakay

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /punˈtaʔ/
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: pun‧ta

puntâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. a piece of bamboo with metal wire hooked on both sides, which is hooked to a pail or bucket, and is carried on the shoulders