punctio

Latin

Etymology

From pungō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpuːnk.ti.oː/, [ˈpuːŋkt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpunk.t͡si.o/, [ˈpuŋkt̪͡s̪io]

Noun

pūnctiō f (genitive pūnctiōnis); third declension

1. puncture, pricking

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	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:
  • → 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’s 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