interpungo
Italian
Verb
interpungo
- first-person singular present indicative of interpungere
Latin
Etymology
inter (“between”) + pungō (“I prick, puncture, or sting”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪn.tɛrˈpʊŋ.ɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [in̪.t̪erˈpuŋ.ɡo]
Verb
interpungō (present infinitive interpungere, perfect active interpūnxī, supine interpūnctum); third conjugation
- (transitive) to place points between words, to point or punctuate
Conjugation
Conjugation of interpungō (third conjugation)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Dutch: interpunkteren
- English: interpoint (through Old French), interpunct
- French: entrepoindre
- German: interpungieren
- Italian: interpungere
- Swedish: interpunktera
References
- “interpungo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- interpungo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 845/1.