punkt

Inherited from Old Czech punkt, from Latin pūnctum.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpuŋkt]

punkt m inan

1. (archaic) point, dot
2. period, full stop (diacritic mark)

• tečka

• “punkt”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “punkt”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Via Middle Low German punct, punt from Latin pūnctum (“point”), the neuter of the participle of pungere (“to puncture”). The Low German word was also borrowed to late Old Norse punktr and Swedish punktr. Doublet of point, pointe, and punktum, and cognate with punktere (from Latin punctuo).

• IPA^(key): /poŋˀt/, [ˈpʰɔŋˀd̥]

punkt n (singular definite punktet, plural indefinite punkter)

1. dot
2. point (in space, on some scale or in some mathematical space)

• “punkt” in Den Danske Ordbog

punkt (genitive punkti, partitive punkti)

1. article (of clothing)
2. dot, point
3. item
4. period, full stop

Declension of punkt (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		punkt	punktid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	punkti
genitive			punktide
partitive		punkti	punkte punktisid
illative		punkti punktisse	punktidesse punktesse
inessive		punktis	punktides punktes
elative		punktist	punktidest punktest
allative		punktile	punktidele punktele
adessive		punktil	punktidel punktel
ablative		punktilt	punktidelt punktelt
translative		punktiks	punktideks punkteks
terminative		punktini	punktideni
essive		punktina	punktidena
abessive		punktita	punktideta
comitative		punktiga	punktidega

• “punkt”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

punkt m

1. indefinite accusative singular of punktur

From Old Norse punktr, from Middle Low German punct, punt, from Latin pūnctum (“point, puncture, moment”), from pūnctus (“pricked, punctured”), perfect passive participle of pungō (“I prick, puncture, punch”), from Proto-Italic *pungō (“to prick, sting”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to prick, punch”). Doublet of punktum.

punkt n (definite singular punktet, indefinite plural punkt or punkter, definite plural punkta or punktene)

1. (generally) point
2. a dot (also in Braille: a raised dot)

• “punkt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse punktr. Doublet of punktum.

punkt n (definite singular punktet, indefinite plural punkt, definite plural punkta)

1. (generally) point
2. a dot (also in Braille: a raised dot)

• “punkt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Learned borrowing from Latin pūnctum.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈpunkt/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈpunkt/

punkt m inan

1. point, degree, unit
2. (administration) point; paragraph

• Czech: punkt

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “punkt”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

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• Rhymes: -uŋkt
• Syllabification: punkt

Learned borrowing from Latin pūnctum.^[1][2][3] First attested in 1566.^[4][5] Doublet of puenta.

punkt m inan (diminutive punkcik, abbreviation p. or pkt)

1. point (discernable dot against a background of other things)

   Near-synonym: kropka

2. (mathematics, sciences) point (zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction)
3. point (place designated for a particular task)

   Synonym: miejsce

4. point (stage of some action)
5. point (element of a list)
6. (literary) point (part of a written or oral statement)
7. (board games, sports, video games) point (unit of scoring in a game or competition)
8. point (distinguishing quality or characteristic)
9. (editorial) point (basic unit of measurement of the length or size of fonts and other elements used in printing, approximately equal to, depending on the calculation system used, from 0.35 to 0.37 millimeters)
10. point (position on an issue)
11. point (spatial or temporal border)
12. (obsolete) task

    Synonym: zadanie

13. (obsolete) order, command

    Synonym: rozkaz

14. (obsolete, anatomy) duct, particularly tear duct
15. (obsolete, cartography) cardinal direction
16. (obsolete, billiards) hole on a billiards table
17. (obsolete) bay

    Synonyms: haf, zatoka

18. (Middle Polish) section of text; paragraph; article
19. (Middle Polish) issue, affair, matter, business, thing

    Synonyms: kwestia, rzecz, sprawa

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), punkt is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 128 times in scientific texts, 54 times in news, 73 times in essays, 13 times in fiction, and 16 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 284 times, making it the 179th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[6]

Ellipsis of punkt w punkt.^[7] First attested in the 19th century.^[8]

punkt (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) on the dot (exactly at a particular hour, neither earlier nor later)

   Synonym: punktualnie

• punkt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• punkt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “PUNKT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 03.06.2009
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “punkt”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “punkt”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861

Borrowed from German Punkt.

• IPA^(key): /pûnkt/

pȕnkt m inan (Cyrillic spelling пу̏нкт)

1. (regional) dot
2. (regional) place
3. (regional) spot
4. (regional) point

• “punkt”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Latin pūnctum through Old Norse punktr.

• IPA^(key): /pɵŋ(k)t/

punkt c

1. a period, a full stop
2. an item (on a list or an agenda)
3. (typography) a point; size of a font
4. (geometry) a point
5. a point, a spot (small location, seen as a position)
6. (figuratively) a point (in time)

   tidpunkt

   point in time

7. a dot; one of the two symbols used in Morse code
8. (finance) basis point, one hundredth of one percentage point

punkt

1. period

   Synonym: punkt slut

• punkt in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• punkt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• punkt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• punkt in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)