punt

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See also: Punt and pùnt

English

Etymology 1

From Old English [Term?], from Latin pontō (“Gaulish flat-bottomed boat, pontoon”), from pons (“bridge”); readopted from Middle Low German punte (“ferry boat”) or Middle Dutch ponte (“ferry boat”) of the same origin.

A traditional upper-Thames punt in use for placing eel-traps called grig-weels in the 19th century

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʌnt/
  • Audio (AU):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌnt

Noun

punt (plural punts)

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

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

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

Verb

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

  1. To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance.
    • 1975, Barry Targan, Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, page 133:
      At the dump he emptied the station wagon quickly and only once punted a bag of refuse, exploding it like a pinata at a Mexican Christmas.
    • 2019, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, We Cast a Shadow (One World, →ISBN), page 100:
      He even hated pets—I once saw him punt a cat.
    1. (rugby, American football, Australian Rules football, Gaelic football, soccer, transitive, intransitive) To kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground. (This puts the ball farther from the goal across which the opposing team is attempting to score, so improves the chances of the team punting.)
    2. (soccer) To kick a bouncing ball far and high.
      • 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC‎[1]:
        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.
  2. (colloquial, intransitive) To equivocate and delay or put off (answering a question, addressing an issue, etc).
    • 2014, John Prados, The Family Jewels: The CIA, Secrecy, and Presidential Power, University of Texas Press (→ISBN), page 91:
      The briefer reported it had been terminated on orders from Secretary Schlesinger, but attributed this to a sense Shamrock produced little, not to the fact it had been discovered. The NSA briefer punted on whether Fort Meade had been reading Americans' private messages, ...
  3. To retreat from one's objective; to abandon an effort one still notionally supports.
    • ca. 2002, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick and C. Michael Pilato, “Basic Work Cycle”, in Version Control with Subversion‎[2]:
      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
  4. (colloquial, intransitive) To make the best choice from a set of non-ideal alternatives.
Derived terms
Derived terms

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Translations

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.
See also
Translations
Empty bottle showing the punt as the indentation in the base

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French pointe or Spanish punto (“point”). Doublet of point.

Pronunciation

Noun

punt (plural punts)

  1. A point in the game of faro.
  2. The act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
  3. A bet or wager.
  4. (Australia) Gambling, as a pastime, especially betting on horseraces or the dogs. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  5. A highly speculative investment or other commitment.
  6. A wild guess.
  7. An indentation in the base of a wine bottle.
  8. (glassblowing) A thin glass rod which is temporarily attached to a larger piece in order to better manipulate the larger piece.
Translations

Verb

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

  1. To play at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
  2. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK) To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally
    • (Can we date this quote by Thackeray and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      She heard […] of his punting at gaming tables.
    • 2004, John Buglear, “Is it worth the risk? – introducing probability”, in Quantitative methods for business: the A-Z of QM‎[3], →ISBN, 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”, in The Guardian‎[4]:
      Eriksson's men still worth a punt
    • 2009 November 3, Sarah Collerton, “Cup punt not child's play”, in ABC News‎[5]:
      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
  3. (figuratively) To make a highly speculative investment or other commitment, or take a wild guess.
Translations

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Irish punt, from Middle English pund.

Pronunciation

Noun

punt (plural punts)

  1. The Irish pound, used as the unit of currency of Ireland until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin punctum.

Pronunciation

Noun

punt m (plural punts)

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

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Further reading

Dutch

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin punctum.

Noun

punt n (plural punten, diminutive puntje n)

  1. point
    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) geometric point
      Door twee punten gaat precies één rechte. ― Through two points one can draw exactly one straight line.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From French point, from Latin punctus.

Noun

punt m (plural punten, diminutive puntje n)

  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
  2. dot
    Een ypsilon, zonder puntjes. ― A wye, without dots on it.
  3. full stop, 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.
    Punt, gedaan. ― Full stop, finished. / That’s it, period.
  4. A pointy slice of a cake, pie or pizza.
    Synonym: taartpunt
Derived terms

Irish

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish punt, from Middle English pund (“pound”), from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), from pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *pend-, *spend- (“to pull, stretch”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

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Noun

punt m (genitive singular puint, nominative plural puint or punta)

  1. pound (unit of weight, unit of currency)
Declension
Declension of punt

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

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From English pound.

Noun

punt m (genitive singular puint, nominative plural puint)

  1. (of enclosure) pound
Declension
Declension of punt

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

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

punt m (genitive singular puint, nominative plural puint)

  1. butt(-end)
  2. tip (of finger)
Declension
Declension of punt

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

Derived terms

Etymology 4

Noun

punt

  1. Alternative form of puinn

Pronunciation

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.

Further reading

Manx

Etymology

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

Noun

punt m (genitive singular punt, plural puint)

  1. (numismatics, unit of measure) pound

Derived terms

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.

References

Old French

Noun

punt oblique singular, m (oblique plural punz or puntz, nominative singular punz or puntz, nominative plural punt)

  1. Alternative form of pont

Romansch

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

punt m (plural punts)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) bridge

Slovene

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

pȕnt m inan

  1. revolt

Inflection

 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing. pùnt
gen. sing. púnta
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		pùnt púnta púnti
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		púnta púntov púntov
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		púntu púntoma púntom
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		pùnt púnta púnte
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		púntu púntih púntih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		púntom púntoma púnti

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Old English pund.

Pronunciation

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Noun

punt f (plural punnoedd or punnau)

  1. (numismatics) pound (sterling)
  2. pound (weight)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
punt bunt mhunt phunt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “punt”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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