punctio

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 *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin pūnctiō

From pungō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pūnctiō f (genitive pūnctiōnis); third declension

1. puncture, pricking

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	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:
  • Venetan: polxón
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: punxon
    • Catalan: punxó
  • Occitan: ponchon, ponchona
  • Old French: ponson, poncheon, ponchon (see there for further descendants)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Portuguese: punção
  • Spanish: punzón
• Borrowings:
  • → Dutch: punctie
  • → 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, 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