punto
Meaning
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- (masculine) point (a specific spot, location, or place)
- (masculine) point (a unit of scoring)
- (masculine) point (a full stop or period)
- (masculine) point (a decimal mark)
- (masculine) stitch (a single pass of a needle in sewing or surgery suture)
- (masculine) bombshell (a great surprise or shock)
- (historical, masculine) punto, Spanish point (a traditional small unit of length, equivalent to about 0.16 mm)
Concepts
information centre
meeting point
melting-point
point of honor
see al punto
see a punto
see a punto fijo
boiling-point
cab rank
knitting stitch
cross stitch
break-point
heat source
Synonyms
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pun‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpunto/
Etymology
Inherited from Latin pūnctum (“point”), from pungō (“to prick, to puncture”). Cognate with Galician punto, Portuguese ponto, and Catalan punt.
New
puntar
- to point, to mark with points
- to add vowel markings, to Hebrew or Arabic script
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