punctio

Latin

Etymology

From pungō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

Noun

pūnctiō f (genitive pūnctiōnis); third declension

  1. puncture, pricking

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative pūnctiō pūnctiōnēs
genitive pūnctiōnis pūnctiōnum
dative pūnctiōnī pūnctiōnibus
accusative pūnctiōnem pūnctiōnēs
ablative pūnctiōne pūnctiōnibus
vocative pūnctiō pūnctiōnēs

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: punzone
    • Sicilian: punzuni
  • North Italian:
    • Venetan: polxón
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old Catalan: punxon
    • Occitan: ponchon, ponchona
    • Old French: ponson, poncheon, ponchon (see there for further descendants)
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Borrowings:
    • Russian: пункция (punkcija)
    • Spanish: punción

References

  • punctio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "punctio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • punctio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • púnctio” in Leo F. Stelten, editor (1995), Dictionary of ecclesiastical Latin: with an appendix of Latin expressions defined and clarified, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, page 216