pungo

Italian

Verb

pungo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pungere

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

    From Proto-Italic *pungō (with punctus for *puctus after pungō), from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (prick, punch). Near cognates include Ancient Greek πυγμή (pugmḗ, fist). Related to pugnus.[1]

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    pungō (present infinitive pungere, perfect active pupugī, supine pūnctum); third conjugation

    1. to prick, puncture, sting

    Conjugation

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Eastern:
      • Aromanian: pungu, pundziri
      • Megleno-Romanian: pung
      • Romanian: împunge, împungere, punge
    • Old French: puindre, poindre
    • Iberian:
      • Asturian: supuñir
      • Old Spanish: puñir
      • Portuguese: pungir
    • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Old Occitan:
      • Occitan: pónher, pónger
      • Old Catalan: púnyer
    • Sardinian: púnghere, punghere
    • Sicilian: pùnciri

    See also

    References

    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pungō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 499

    Further reading

    • pungo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • pungo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • pungo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.