interpunctio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Indo-European *-tér

Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér

Proto-Italic *n̥ter

Latin inter

Latin inter-

Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *punéǵti

Proto-Italic *pungō

Latin pungō

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 punctio

Latin interpūnctiō

From inter- + punctio.

Noun

interpūnctiō f (genitive interpūnctiōnis); third declension

1. punctuation (placing of points between words)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	interpūnctiō	interpūnctiōnēs
genitive	interpūnctiōnis	interpūnctiōnum
dative	interpūnctiōnī	interpūnctiōnibus
accusative	interpūnctiōnem	interpūnctiōnēs
ablative	interpūnctiōne	interpūnctiōnibus
vocative	interpūnctiō	interpūnctiōnēs

Descendants

• Italian: interpunzione

References

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