punto

• puncto

From Latin punctum (“point”) via Italian and Spanish punto, from pungō (“to prick, to puncture”). Doublet of point, punctum, and ponto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʌntəʊ/, /ˈpʊntəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

punto (plural puntos)

1. (fencing) A hit or point.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee traverse, to see thee here, to see thee there, to see thee pass thy puncto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy distance, thy montant.

2. (historical) A traditional small Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 0.16 mm.

• (fencing term): point, strike, hit
• (unit of length): Spanish point, point (Spanish contexts)

• (unit of length): linea (12 puntos), dedo (108 puntos), pulgada (144 puntos)

• punto diritto: a direct or straight hit
• punto reverso, punto riverso: a back-handed strike

• “punto”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Upton, not up, put on, put-on, ton-up, unpot, upon't

punto

1. first-person singular present indicative of puntar

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [ˈpunto]
• Rhymes: -unto
• Hyphenation: pun‧to

punto (accusative singular punton, plural puntoj, accusative plural puntojn)

1. lace (fabric)

• ponto

From Old Galician-Portuguese punto, from Latin punctus. Cognate with Spanish punto, Portuguese ponto, and Catalan punt.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpuntʊ]

punto m (plural puntos)

1. point
2. spot, place
3. dot
4. (grammar) full stop

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

• “punto”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

From English point, French point, German Punkt, Italian punto, Russian пункт (punkt), Spanish punto, all ultimately from Latin punctum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpun.to/, /ˈpun.tɔ/

punto (plural punti)

1. (geometry, astronomy, typography, grammar, music, games) point; dot; position; period; small hole (as made by a needle or awl)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpun.to/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -unto
• Hyphenation: pùn‧to

From Latin punctum.

punto m (plural punti)

1. point (all senses), jot, iota
2. full stop, period
3. dot
4. instant (point in time)
5. (in the plural) points, score
6. (baseball) run
7. (surgery, sewing) stitch
8. staple

punto

1. (Tuscan) reinforces negation. at all

   Synonyms: affatto, per niente

punto

1. (Tuscan) nothing

   Synonym: niente

   Non ho mangiato punto.

   I ate nothing.

punto

1. first-person singular present indicative of puntare

From Latin punctus.

punto (feminine punta, masculine plural punti, feminine plural punte)

1. past participle of pungere

• IPA^(key): /ˈpunto/ [ˈpũn̪.t̪o]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -unto
• Syllabification: pun‧to

Inherited from Latin pūnctum (“point”), from pungō (“to prick, to puncture”). Cognate with Galician punto, Portuguese ponto, and Catalan punt.

punto m (plural puntos) (diminutive puntillo or puntito)

1. point (a specific spot, location, or place)
2. point (a unit of scoring)

   Tienes cinco puntos.

   You have five points.

   Ese artículo cuesta tres puntos.

   That item costs three points.

3. (grammar) point (a full stop or period)
4. (mathematics) point (a decimal mark)
5. (sewing) stitch (a single pass of a needle in sewing or surgery suture)
6. bombshell (a great surprise or shock)
7. (historical) punto, Spanish point (a traditional small unit of length, equivalent to about 0.16 mm)

• (unit of length): línea (12 puntos), dedo (108 puntos), pulgada (144 puntos)

• → Tagalog: punto

¡punto!

1. that's it!

   Synonym: eso es

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

punto

1. first-person singular present indicative of puntar

• “punto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

• ponto — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

Borrowed from Spanish punto, from Latin pūnctum (“point”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpunto/ [ˈpun̪.t̪o], /punˈto/ [pʊn̪ˈt̪o]
• Rhymes: -unto, -o
• Syllabification: pun‧to

punto or puntó (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

1. point

punto or puntó (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

1. (sociolinguistics) accent

   Synonym: asento

2. (by extension) dialect

   Synonym: diyalekto

• “punto”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 503: “Punto) Ponto (pc) C. Redondo que acaba el periodo”

From Ottoman Turkish پونطو (punto), from Italian punto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpun.to/

punto (definite accusative puntoyu, plural puntolar)

1. font size
   • 1962, Nâzım Hikmet, Vatan Haini [Traitor to the Homeland]‎^[2]:

     Yazın üç sütun üstüne kapkara haykıran puntolarla : / Nâzım Hikmet vatan hainliğine devam ediyor hâlâ.

     Let it be written on three columns of jet-black font that cries: / Nâzım Hikmet continues to be a traitor to the homeland.

Inflection
Nominative	punto
Definite accusative	puntoyu
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	punto	puntolar
Definite accusative	puntoyu	puntoları
Dative	puntoya	puntolara
Locative	puntoda	puntolarda
Ablative	puntodan	puntolardan
Genitive	puntonun	puntoların