compunctio

Latin

Alternative forms

• conpūnctiō

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *punéǵti

Proto-Italic *pungō

Latin pungō

Latin compungō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin compūnctiō

From compungō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔmˈpuːŋk.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [komˈpuŋk.t͡si.o]

Noun

compūnctiō f (genitive compūnctiōnis); third declension

1. puncture
2. (Late Latin) prick (e.g. of conscience)
3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) remorse

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	compūnctiō	compūnctiōnēs
genitive	compūnctiōnis	compūnctiōnum
dative	compūnctiōnī	compūnctiōnibus
accusative	compūnctiōnem	compūnctiōnēs
ablative	compūnctiōne	compūnctiōnibus
vocative	compūnctiō	compūnctiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: compunció
• English: compunction
• French: componction
• Galician: compunción
• Italian: compunzione
• Portuguese: compunção
• Romanian: compuncțiune
• Spanish: compunción

References

• “compunctio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “compunctio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.