punt

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pʌnt/, SAMPA: /pVnt/
• Rhymes: -ʌnt

Etymology 1

Old English, probably from Latin ponto (“Gaulish flat-bottomed boat, pontoon”), from pons (“bridge”)

Noun

punt (plural punts)

1. (nautical) A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole.

Translations

narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole

Dutch: vlet (nl) c. Finnish: jokivene, ruuhi (fi) German: Stocherkahn (de) m. Irish: punta (ga) m., puint (ga) f.

Italian: barchino (it) m. Latin: scapha (la) f. Spanish: batea (es)

Verb

punt (third-person singular simple present punts, present participle punting, simple past and past participle punted)

1. (nautical) To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole.

Translations

propel a punt with a pole

Dutch: vletten (nl) Finnish: sauvoa (fi)

German: stochern (de)

Etymology 2

Possibly a dialectal variant of bunt; Rugby is the origin of the sports usage of the term.

Verb

punt (third-person singular simple present punts, present participle punting, simple past and past participle punted)

1. (rugby, American football, Australian Rules football, Gaelic football, soccer) To kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground.
2. (soccer) To kick a bouncing ball far and high.
   • 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, BBC:

     With five minutes remaining Hennessey was down well to block another Vukcevic shot, while Gunter was smartly in to punt away the dangerous loose ball.

3. To retreat from one's objective.
   • ca. 2002, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick and C. Michael Pilato, “Basic Work Cycle”, in Version Control with Subversion^[1]:

     Punting: Using svn revert¶ If you decide that you want to throw out your changes and start your edits again (whether this occurs after a conflict or anytime), just revert your changes

Derived terms

• drop punt
• punt returner
• punter
• torpedo punt

Translations

American football: drop-kick

retreat from one's objective

Dutch: zich (nl) terugtrekken (nl)

Noun

punt (plural punts)

1. (rugby, American football, soccer) A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground. Contrast drop kick.

Translations

American football: drop-kick

Finnish: lentopotku

Irish: (Gaelic football) lasc (ga) f., (rugby) cic (ga) m.

Etymology 3

From French ponte or Spanish punto (“point”).

Noun

punt (plural punts)

1. A point in the game of faro.
2. A bet or wager
3. An indentation in the base of a wine bottle.
4. (glassblowing) A thin glass rod which is temporarily attached to a larger piece in order to better manipulate the larger piece.

Translations

point in the game of faro

Dutch: punt (nl) n.

Italian: puntata (it) f.

bet or wager

Dutch: gok (nl) m., weddenschap (nl) f. Finnish: veto (fi)

Italian: puntata (it) f., scommessa (it) f. Swedish: vad (sv) n.

indentation in the base of a wine bottle

Irish: log (ga) m.

Italian: indentazione (it) f.

Verb

punt (third-person singular simple present punts, present participle punting, simple past and past participle punted)

1. (UK, chiefly Ireland) To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally
   • 2004, John Buglear, “Is it worth the risk? – introducing probability”, in Quantitative methods for business: the A-Z of QM^[2], ISBN 9780750658980, page 339:

     Whether you want to gamble on a horse race, bet on which player will score first in a game of football, have a punt on a particular tennis player winning a grand slam event, you are buying a chance, a chance which is measured in terms of probability, ‘the odds’.

   • 2006 June 23, Dan Roebuck, “Eriksson's men still worth a punt”, The Guardian:

     Eriksson's men still worth a punt

   • 2009 November 3, Sarah Collerton, “Cup punt not child's play”, ABC News:

     Australians have a reputation for being keen to bet on two flies climbing up a wall and today young ones often take a casual classroom punt

2. (figuratively) To make a highly speculative investment or other commitment, or take a wild guess.

Translations

to gamble

Italian: puntare (it), scommettere (it)

make a highly speculative investment or other commitment

Dutch: wedden (nl), gokken (nl)

Related terms

• punter

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Anglo-Norman

Noun

punt m. (oblique plural punz, nominative singular punz, nominative plural punt)

1. bridge (construction)

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Catalan

Etymology

Latin punctum

Noun

punt m. (plural punts)

1. point (specific location)
2. dot ((grammar) A punctuation mark)
3. dot ((mathematics) Used for separating the fractional part from the whole part)
4. dot (Used in Morse code)

Derived terms

• punt de vista

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Dutch

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Etymology

From Latin punctum.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pʏnt/

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Noun

punt n. (plural punten, diminutive puntje)

1. A position, place, or spot
2. A moment in time
3. A central idea, argument, or opinion of a discussion or presentation
4. A tally of worth or score (such as in a game)
5. A mark, note, or grade (as in for a class)
6. (geometry) point

   Door twee punten gaat precies één rechte.

   Through two points one can draw exactly one straight line.

7. full stop, period

   Punt, gedaan.

   Full stop, finished. / That’s it, period.

   Aan het einde van een zin hoort een punt of een ander leesteken.

   At the end of a sentence there belongs a full stop or another punctuation sign.

8. dot

   Een ypsilon, zonder puntjes.

   A wye, without dots on it.

punt m. (plural punten, diminutive puntje)

1. The terminal point of something

   de punt van een naald of mes

   the point of a needle or knife

   de zuidpunt van het eiland

   the southern point of the island

Derived terms

beginpunt buigpunt brandpunt de puntjes op de i zetten dieptepunt doelpunt grenspunt hoekpunt hoogtepunt

lichtpunt procentpunt punteren raakpunt snijpunt spaarpunt startpunt strafpunt zwaartepunt

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish punt, from Middle English pund (“pound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pˠʊn̪ˠt̪ˠ/

Noun

punt m.

1. (numismatics, unit of measure) pound

Declension

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative punt puint Vocative a phuint a phunta Genitive puint punt Dative punt puint

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an punt na puint Genitive an phuint na bpunt Dative leis an bpunt don phunt leis na puint

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
punt	phunt	bpunt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish punt, from Middle English pund (“pound”).

Noun

punt m. (plural puint)

1. (numismatics, unit of measure) pound

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
punt	phunt	bunt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Derived terms

• punt airhey
• punt ommidjagh
• punt Sostynagh
• puntaght

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Romansch

Etymology

From Latin pōns (compare Catalan pont, French pont, Italian ponte, Occitan pònt, Portuguese ponte, Spanish puente), from Proto-Indo-European *pont- (“path, road”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: [punt]

Noun

punt m. (plural punts)

1. bridge

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Slovene

Noun

punt m.

1. revolt