punctim

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

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 *-tim

Proto-Italic *-tim

Latin -tim

Latin pūnctim

From pungō (“to sting”) + -tim.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpuːŋk.tĩː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpuŋk.tim]

Adverb

pūnctim (not comparable)

1. with the point

   Antonym: caesim

References

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