punctio

Latin

Etymology

From pungō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

Noun

pūnctiō f (genitive pūnctiōnis); third declension

  1. puncture, pricking

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case 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:
    • Venetian: 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
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