punta

punta (uncountable)

1. A Garifuna style of festive music and dance.

• Anput, tupan, unapt, untap

Borrowed from Spanish punta.

• IPA^(key): /punta/ [pũn̪.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -unta, -a
• Hyphenation: pun‧ta

punta inan

1. peak, tip

• “punta”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “punta”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Inherited from Late Latin puncta, from the feminine of Latin punctus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpun.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpun.ta]

punta f (plural puntes)

1. point, tip
2. pinch, bit (small amount)
3. peak, top
4. point, purpose, reason
5. lace

   Synonym: randa

• punt

• “punta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

punta

1. inflection of puntar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Proto-Finnic *punta (“old unit of weight”) (compare Estonian pund, Livonian pūnda), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), itself from Latin pondō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuntɑ/, [ˈpun̪t̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -untɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pun‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): pun‧ta

punta

1. pound (currency)
2. (rare, archaic) synonym of pauna (“pound (unit of weight)”)

• “punta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• pantu, patun, punat

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ponta, from Late Latin puncta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpunta/ [ˈpun̪.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -unta
• Hyphenation: pun‧ta

punta m (plural puntas)

1. tip, point, end

   Synonym: cabo

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ponta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ponta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “punta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “punta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “punta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈpˠɞn̪ˠt̪ˠə/^[1]

punta m (genitive singular punta, nominative plural puntaí)

1. punt (boat)

• puint

punta

1. plural of punt (“pound”)

From Late Latin puncta, from the feminine of Latin punctus. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpun.ta/
• Rhymes: -unta
• Hyphenation: pùn‧ta

punta f (plural punte)

1. point, head, tip, top, peak, end

   Synonyms: estremità, cima, testa

2. toe (of a shoe)
3. pinch, touch, hint (small quantity)

   Synonyms: pizzico, tocco, accenno

4. bit (of a drill)
5. (soccer) forward, striker, attacker

   Synonym: attaccante

6. pile (of arrow or spear)
7. scriber

• punto

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

punta

1. inflection of puntare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Spanish punta.

The word "punda" is an obsolete variation.

punta

1. point

• IPA^(key): /ˈpunta/ [ˈpũn̪.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -unta
• Syllabification: pun‧ta

Inherited from Late Latin puncta, from the feminine of Latin punctus.

punta f (plural puntas)

1. tip, point, end

   la punta del iceberg ― the tip of the iceberg

2. pinch, bit (small amount)

   Synonym: pizco

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

punta

1. inflection of puntar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “punta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Possibly from Spanish puntar (“point”) or Spanish apuntar (“aim”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /punˈta/ [pʊn̪ˈt̪a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: pun‧ta

puntá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. destination, direction

   Synonyms: patutunguhan, paroroonan

   Saan ang punta mo?

   Where will you go? (lit. Where is your destination?)

Borrowed from Spanish punta.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpunta/ [ˈpun̪.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -unta
• Syllabification: pun‧ta

punta (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. point, end

   Synonyms: dunggit, dulo

2. (geology) headland, promontory
3. (colloquial) aim, purpose

   Synonyms: layon, layunin, hangad, hangarin, intensyon, pakay

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /punˈtaʔ/ [pʊn̪ˈt̪aʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: pun‧ta

puntâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. a piece of bamboo with metal wire hooked on both sides, which is hooked to a pail or bucket, and is carried on the shoulders