punta

See also: puntá

English

Noun

punta (uncountable)

1. A Garifuna style of festive music and dance.

Anagrams

• Anput, tupan, unapt, untap

Basque

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *punéǵti

Proto-Italic *pungō

Latin pungō

Latin pūnctus

Late Latin puncta

Spanish puntabor.

Basque punta

Borrowed from Spanish punta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /punta/ [pũn̪.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -unta, -a
• Hyphenation: pun‧ta

Noun

punta inan

1. peak, tip

Declension

Declension of punta (inan a-stem)

	indefinite	singular	plural	proximal plural
absolutive	punta	punta	puntak	puntok
ergative	puntak	puntak	puntek	puntok
dative	puntari	puntari	puntei	puntoi
genitive	puntaren	puntaren	punten	punton
comitative	puntarekin	puntarekin	puntekin	puntokin
causative	puntarengatik	puntarengatik	puntengatik	puntongatik
benefactive	puntarentzat	puntarentzat	puntentzat	puntontzat
instrumental	puntaz	puntaz	puntez	puntotaz
inessive	puntatan	puntan	puntetan	puntotan
locative	puntatako	puntako	puntetako	puntotako
allative	puntatara	puntara	puntetara	puntotara
terminative	puntataraino	puntaraino	puntetaraino	puntotaraino
directive	puntatarantz	puntarantz	puntetarantz	puntotarantz
destinative	puntatarako	puntarako	puntetarako	puntotarako
ablative	puntatatik	puntatik	puntetatik	puntotatik
partitive	puntarik	—	—	—
prolative	puntatzat	—	—	—

Further reading

• “punta”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “punta”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Late Latin puncta, from the feminine of Latin punctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈpun.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈpun.ta]

Noun

punta f (plural puntes)

1. point, tip
2. pinch, bit (small amount)
3. peak, top
4. point, purpose, reason
5. lace

   Synonym: randa

Derived terms

• apuntar
• hora punta
• punteta

Related terms

• punt

Further reading

• “punta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Etymology 2

Verb

punta

1. inflection of puntar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *punta (“old unit of weight”) (compare Estonian pund, Livonian pūnda), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), itself from Latin pondō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuntɑ/, [ˈpun̪t̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -untɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pun‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): pun‧ta

Noun

punta

1. pound (currency)
2. (archaic) pound (unit of weight)

   Synonyms: pauna, naula

3. (historical) old unit of volume for grain, equivalent to either six or eight panni (the former more common in Finland, the latter more common in Sweden)

Declension

Inflection of punta (Kotus type 10*J/koira, nt–nn gradation)
nominative		punta	punnat
genitive		punnan	puntien
partitive		puntaa	puntia
illative		puntaan	puntiin
		singular	plural
nominative		punta	punnat
accusative	nom.	punta	punnat
	gen.	punnan
genitive		punnan	puntien puntain rare
partitive		puntaa	puntia
inessive		punnassa	punnissa
elative		punnasta	punnista
illative		puntaan	puntiin
adessive		punnalla	punnilla
ablative		punnalta	punnilta
allative		punnalle	punnille
essive		puntana	puntina
translative		punnaksi	punniksi
abessive		punnatta	punnitta
instructive		—	punnin
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of punta (Kotus type 10*J/koira, nt–nn gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative puntani puntani accusative nom. puntani puntani gen. puntani genitive puntani puntieni puntaini rare partitive puntaani puntiani inessive punnassani punnissani elative punnastani punnistani illative puntaani puntiini adessive punnallani punnillani ablative punnaltani punniltani allative punnalleni punnilleni essive puntanani puntinani translative punnakseni punnikseni abessive punnattani punnittani instructive — — comitative — puntineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative puntasi puntasi accusative nom. puntasi puntasi gen. puntasi genitive puntasi puntiesi puntaisi rare partitive puntaasi puntiasi inessive punnassasi punnissasi elative punnastasi punnistasi illative puntaasi puntiisi adessive punnallasi punnillasi ablative punnaltasi punniltasi allative punnallesi punnillesi essive puntanasi puntinasi translative punnaksesi punniksesi abessive punnattasi punnittasi instructive — — comitative — puntinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative puntamme puntamme accusative nom. puntamme puntamme gen. puntamme genitive puntamme puntiemme puntaimme rare partitive puntaamme puntiamme inessive punnassamme punnissamme elative punnastamme punnistamme illative puntaamme puntiimme adessive punnallamme punnillamme ablative punnaltamme punniltamme allative punnallemme punnillemme essive puntanamme puntinamme translative punnaksemme punniksemme abessive punnattamme punnittamme instructive — — comitative — puntinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative puntanne puntanne accusative nom. puntanne puntanne gen. puntanne genitive puntanne puntienne puntainne rare partitive puntaanne puntianne inessive punnassanne punnissanne elative punnastanne punnistanne illative puntaanne puntiinne adessive punnallanne punnillanne ablative punnaltanne punniltanne allative punnallenne punnillenne essive puntananne puntinanne translative punnaksenne punniksenne abessive punnattanne punnittanne instructive — — comitative — puntinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative puntansa puntansa accusative nom. puntansa puntansa gen. puntansa genitive puntansa puntiensa puntainsa rare partitive puntaansa puntiaan puntiansa inessive punnassaan punnassansa punnissaan punnissansa elative punnastaan punnastansa punnistaan punnistansa illative puntaansa puntiinsa adessive punnallaan punnallansa punnillaan punnillansa ablative punnaltaan punnaltansa punniltaan punniltansa allative punnalleen punnallensa punnilleen punnillensa essive puntanaan puntanansa puntinaan puntinansa translative punnakseen punnaksensa punnikseen punniksensa abessive punnattaan punnattansa punnittaan punnittansa instructive — — comitative — puntineen puntinensa

Derived terms

• punnita
• punnus

compounds

• puntamäärä

Further reading

• “punta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

Anagrams

• pantu, patun, punat

Galician

Etymology

Etymology tree

Late Latin puncta

Old Galician-Portuguese ponta

Galician punta

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ponta, from Late Latin puncta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpunta/ [ˈpun̪.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -unta
• Hyphenation: pun‧ta

Noun

punta m (plural puntas)

1. tip, point, end

   Synonym: cabo

Derived terms

• punteiro

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “ponta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “punta”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), “punta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, Ernesto X. González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “punta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “punta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpˠɞn̪ˠt̪ˠə/

Etymology 1

Noun

punta m (genitive singular punta, nominative plural puntaí)

1. punt (boat)

Declension

Declension of punta (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative punta puntaí vocative a phunta a phuntaí genitive punta puntaí dative punta puntaí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an punta na puntaí genitive an phunta na bpuntaí dative leis an bpunta don phunta leis na puntaí

Synonyms

• puint

Etymology 2

Noun

punta

1. plural of punt (“pound”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of punta

radical	lenition	eclipsis
punta	phunta	bpunta

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Italian

Etymology 1

From Late Latin puncta, from the feminine of Latin punctus. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpun.ta/
• Rhymes: -unta
• Hyphenation: pùn‧ta

Noun

punta f (plural punte)

1. point, head, tip, top, peak, end

   Synonyms: estremità, cima, testa

2. toe (of a shoe)
3. pinch, touch, hint (small quantity)

   Synonyms: pizzico, tocco, accenno

4. bit (of a drill)
5. (soccer) forward, striker, attacker

   Synonym: attaccante

6. pile (of arrow or spear)
7. scriber

Derived terms

• a punta
• appuntare
• appuntire
• cane da punta
• punta a tracciare
• punta della freccia
• punta della lancia
• punta della spada
• puntale
• puntare
• puntarella
• puntasecca
• puntata
• puntello
• punteruolo
• puntina
• spuntare
• uomo di punta

Related terms

• punto

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

punta

1. inflection of puntare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Makasar

Etymology

From puN- +‎ -ta.

Conjunction

punta (Lontara spelling ᨄᨘᨈ or 𑻣𑻴𑻦)

1. (archaic or poetic) if we (inclusive)
2. (archaic or poetic) if you (polite or plural)

Further reading

• Cense, A. A. (1979), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek [Makasar-Dutch dictionary], 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page 567

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish punta.

The word "punda" is an obsolete variation.

Noun

punta

1. point

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpunta/ [ˈpũn̪.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -unta
• Syllabification: pun‧ta

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *punéǵti

Proto-Italic *pungō

Latin pungō

Latin pūnctus

Late Latin puncta

Spanish punta

Inherited from Late Latin puncta, feminine of Latin pūnctus, perfect passive participle of pungō, from Proto-Italic *pungō, from Proto-Indo-European *punéǵti, from *pewǵ- + *-né- + *-ti.

Noun

punta f (plural puntas)

1. tip, point, end

   la punta del iceberg ― the tip of the iceberg

2. pinch, bit (small amount)

   Synonym: pizco

Derived terms

• a punta de lanza
• a punta de pala
• a punta pala
• apuntar
• de punta (“tip-top, cutting edge, state-of-the-art”)
• de punta a cabo
• de punta a punta
• de punta en blanco
• en la punta de la lengua
• en punta
• entado en punta
• media punta
• pelos de punta
• por la otra punta
• punta de anca
• punta de yuca
• punta del iceberg
• puntazo
• puntiaguda
• puntilla
• puntita
• sacapuntas
• sacar punta
• serrucho de punta
• sierra de punta

Related terms

• punto

Adjective

punta (invariable)

1. peak

   horas punta

   peak hours

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

punta

1. inflection of puntar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “punta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Spanish puntarbor.?

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Spanish a-

Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *punéǵti

Proto-Italic *pungō

Latin pungō

Latin pūnctus

Latin pūnctum

Old Spanish punto

Spanish punto

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -āre

Old Spanish -ar

Spanish -ar

▲

Spanish a-

▲

Latin pūnctus

Late Latin puncta

Spanish punta

▲

Spanish -ar

Spanish apuntarbor.?

Tagalog punta

Possibly borrowed from Spanish puntar (“point”) or apuntar (“aim”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /punˈta/ [pʊn̪ˈt̪a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: pun‧ta

Noun

puntá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. destination, direction

   Synonyms: patutunguhan, paroroonan

   Saan ang punta mo?

   Where will you go? (lit. Where is your destination?)

Derived terms

• magpunta
• papunta
• papuntahin
• pumunta
• puntahan

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *punéǵti

Proto-Italic *pungō

Latin pungō

Latin pūnctus

Late Latin puncta

Spanish puntabor.

Tagalog punta

Borrowed from Spanish punta, from Late Latin puncta, feminine of Latin pūnctus, perfect passive participle of pungō, from Proto-Italic *pungō, from Proto-Indo-European *punéǵti, from *pewǵ- + *-né- + *-ti.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpunta/ [ˈpun̪.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -unta
• Syllabification: pun‧ta

Noun

punta (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. point, end

   Synonyms: dunggit, dulo

2. (geology) headland, promontory
3. (colloquial) aim, purpose

   Synonyms: layon, layunin, hangad, hangarin, intensyon, pakay

Related terms

• apunta
• puntablangko
• punterya
• puntilya
• punto

See also

• puntahin

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /punˈtaʔ/ [pʊn̪ˈt̪aʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: pun‧ta

Noun

puntâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. a piece of bamboo with metal wire hooked on both sides, which is hooked to a pail or bucket, and is carried on the shoulders

Woiwurrung

Alternative forms

• boonder
• bondar

Verb

punta

1. bite
   • "Moorrdak kooderboûn boonderboon koolon-noong werrp-poderboûn koolin'tak? Bondang'in leângoo" - How does the snake bite to kill a man? With his teeth.
   • "Milajele nagrot bondar ban boli nonaje tangarea errimboe" - And the fish will bite, and we will eat them.