ponto

From Portuguese ponto (“point”), Old Galician-Portuguese ponto, from Latin punctum, from pungō (“to prick, to puncture”). Doublet of punto and puncto.

ponto (plural pontos)

1. (historical, measure) A traditional short Portuguese unit of length usually about equal to 0.2 mm.

• Portuguese point, point (in Portuguese contexts)

• point (traditional English equivalent), linha (12 pontos), grao (24 pontos), dedo (96 pontos), polegada (144 pontos)

• ontop, on top

Common Romance, ultimately from Latin pōns. Compare French pont, Italian ponte.

• IPA^(key): [ˈponto]

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• Rhymes: -onto
• Hyphenation: pon‧to

ponto (accusative singular ponton, plural pontoj, accusative plural pontojn)

1. bridge

   La ponto estis konstruita super la rivero.

   The bridge was built over the river.

From Esperanto ponto, from French pont, Italian ponte, Spanish puente, ultimately from Latin pontem, accusative singular of pōns, from Proto-Indo-European *pónteh₁s, from *pent-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpon.to/, /ˈpɔn.tɔ/

ponto (plural ponti)

1. bridge; culvert; gangplank, gangway

• ponteto (“footbridge, culvert, gangway”)
  • kordoponteto (“bridge (of a violin)”)

From Latin pōns, pontem.

ponto m

1. bridge

Borrowed from Latin pontus, from Ancient Greek πόντος (póntos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔn.to/
• Rhymes: -ɔnto
• Hyphenation: pòn‧to

ponto m (plural ponti)

1. (literary) sea

   Synonyms: mare, (literary) pelago

• ponto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpon.toː/, [ˈpɔn̪t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpon.to/, [ˈpɔn̪t̪o]

From pōns (“bridge”).

pontō m (genitive pontōnis); third declension

1. ferryboat
2. a floating bridge or pontoon

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

pontō

1. dative/ablative singular of pontus

• “ponto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ponto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ponto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “ponto”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

ponto

1. deer

• Li, Fengxiang and Lindsay J. Whaley, Oroqen vocabulary, in Martin Haspelmath & Uri Tadmor (editors), World Loanword Database, Munich: Max Planck Digital Library (2009)

• poncto (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese ponto, from Latin punctum (“point”), from pungō (“to prick, to puncture, to punch”). Cognate with Spanish punto. Doublet of point.

• Homophone: Ponto
• Hyphenation: pon‧to

ponto m (plural pontos)

1. point, a specific spot, location, or place

   Synonyms: local, localidade, lugar

2. (sports) point, a unit of scoring
   • 1888, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica‎^[1], Porto: Livraria Internacional de Ernesto Chardron, →ISBN:

     E em triumpho, aos pulos, contou elle mesmo os sessenta e oito pontos que Carlos perdia.

     And in triumph, jumping, he counted himself the sixty-eight points Carl had lost.

3. point, a topic of discussion

   Synonyms: questão, tópico

   • 1888, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica‎^[2], Porto: Livraria Internacional de Ernesto Chardron, →ISBN:

     —Vamos ao ponto essencial… Quanto quer o snr. Palma por me dizer quem lhe encommendou o artigo da Corneta?

     Let’s get to the point… how much does Mr. Palma want for telling me who ordered the Corneta article?

4. point, a particular moment
5. (economics) point, a unit used to express stocks, shares, interest rates, etc.
6. (geometry) point, a zero-dimensional object or location
7. point, any dot or small spot

   Synonyms: mancha, pinta, sinal

   • 1888, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica‎^[3], Porto: Livraria Internacional de Ernesto Chardron, →ISBN:

     Alencar deu um olhar á severa frontaria de convento, adormecida, sem um ponto de luz.

     Alencar looked at the sombre façade of the convent, asleep, without a dot of light.

8. (typography) point, a dot or tittle of a character

   Synonym: pingo

9. (grammar) point, a full stop or period

   Synonym: ponto final

10. (sewing) stitch, a single pass of a needle in sewing or surgery suture
11. timecard, a register of when employees arrive and leave
12. time clock, a machine used to log when employees arrive and leave
13. point, a specific value in a scale

    ponto crítico

    critical point

14. (cooking) medium rare, done an amount of cooking between rare and well done
15. (Brazil) bus stop, taxi stand, a location where passengers wait for a bus or taxi

    Synonym: (Portugal) paragem

    ponto de ônibus

    bus stop

    ponto de táxi

    taxi stand

16. (historical, measure) Portuguese point, a small unit of length, about equal to 0.2 mm
17. point, a unit of measurement for a TV audience
18. (theater) an assistant who helps actors with forgotten lines

• (zero-dimensional object): espaço, plano
• (full stop): ponto de exclamação, ponto de interrogação, ponto-e-vírgula, reticências, vírgula
• (neither well done nor rare): bem-passado, mal-passado
• (unit of length): linha (12 pontos), grão (24 pontos), dedo (96 pontos), polegada (144 pontos)

From Latin pontus (“sea”), q.v.

• IPA^(key): /ˈponto/ [ˈpõn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -onto
• Syllabification: pon‧to

ponto m (plural pontos)

1. (poetic) sea; the sea

• “ponto”, 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