# ponto
## English
### Etymology

From Portuguese ponto (“point”), Old Galician-Portuguese ponto, from Latin punctum, from pungō (“to prick, to puncture”). Doublet of point, pointe, puncto, punctum, punt, and punto.

### Noun

ponto (plural pontos)
* (historical, measure) A traditional short Portuguese unit of length usually about equal to 0.2 mm.

#### Synonyms

* Portuguese point, point (in Portuguese contexts)

#### Coordinate terms

* point (traditional English equivalent), linha (12 pontos), grao (24 pontos), dedo (96 pontos), polegada (144 pontos)

### Anagrams

* ontop, on top

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Common Romance, ultimately from Latin pōns. Compare French pont, Italian ponte.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈponto]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -onto
* Hyphenation: pon‧to

### Noun

ponto (accusative singular ponton, plural pontoj, accusative plural pontojn)
* bridge
    La ponto estis konstruita super la rivero.The bridge was built over the river.

## Ido
### Etymology

From Esperanto ponto, from French pont, Italian ponte, Spanish puente, ultimately from Latin pontem, accusative singular of pōns, from Proto-Indo-European *pónteh₁s, from *pent-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpon.to/, /ˈpɔn.tɔ/

### Noun

ponto (plural ponti)
* bridge; culvert; gangplank, gangway

#### Derived terms

* ponteto (“footbridge, culvert, gangway”)
** kordoponteto (“bridge (of a violin)”)

## Istriot
### Etymology

From Latin pōns, pontem.

### Noun

ponto m
* bridge

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pontus, from Ancient Greek πόντος (póntos).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔn.to/
* Rhymes: -ɔnto
* Hyphenation: pòn‧to

### Noun

ponto m (plural ponti)
* (literary) sea
    Synonyms: mare, (literary) pelago

### Further reading

* ponto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpon.toː/, [ˈpɔn̪t̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpon.to/, [ˈpɔn̪t̪o]

### Etymology 1

From pōns (“bridge”).

#### Noun

pontō m (genitive pontōnis); third declension
* ferryboat
* a floating bridge or pontoon

##### Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

##### Descendants

* Catalan: pontó
* English: pontoon
* Esperanto: pontono
* French: ponton
* Galician: pontón
* German: Ponton
* Irish: pontún
* Italian: pontone
* Portuguese: pontão
* Spanish: pontón

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

pontō
* dative/ablative singular of pontus

### References

* “ponto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ponto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* ponto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “ponto”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

## Oroqen
### Noun

ponto
* deer

### References

* Li, Fengxiang and Lindsay J. Whaley, Oroqen vocabulary, in Martin Haspelmath & Uri Tadmor (editors), World Loanword Database, Munich: Max Planck Digital Library (2009)

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* poncto (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ponto, from Latin punctum (“point”), from pungō (“to prick, to puncture, to punch”). Cognate with Spanish punto. Doublet of point.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpõ.tu/
* Homophone: Ponto
* Hyphenation: pon‧to

### Noun

ponto m (plural pontos)
* point, a specific spot, location, or place
    Synonyms: local, localidade, lugar
* (sports) point, a unit of scoring
** 1888, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica‎, Porto: Livraria Internacional de Ernesto Chardron, →ISBN:E em triumpho, aos pulos, contou elle mesmo os sessenta e oito pontos que Carlos perdia.And in triumph, jumping, he counted himself the sixty-eight points Carl had lost.
* point, a topic of discussion
    Synonyms: questão, tópico
** 1888, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica‎, Porto: Livraria Internacional de Ernesto Chardron, →ISBN:—Vamos ao ponto essencial… Quanto quer o snr. Palma por me dizer quem lhe encommendou o artigo da Corneta?Let’s get to the point… how much does Mr. Palma want for telling me who ordered the Corneta article?
* point, a particular moment
* (economics) point, a unit used to express stocks, shares, interest rates, etc.
* (geometry) point, a zero-dimensional object or location
* point, any dot or small spot
    Synonyms: mancha, pinta, sinal
** 1888, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica‎, Porto: Livraria Internacional de Ernesto Chardron, →ISBN:Alencar deu um olhar á severa frontaria de convento, adormecida, sem um ponto de luz.Alencar looked at the sombre façade of the convent, asleep, without a dot of light.
* (typography) point, a dot or tittle of a character
    Synonym: pingo
* (grammar) point, a full stop or period
    Synonym: ponto final
* (sewing) stitch, a single pass of a needle in sewing or surgery suture
* timecard, a register of when employees arrive and leave
* time clock, a machine used to log when employees arrive and leave
* point, a specific value in a scale
    ponto críticocritical point
* (cooking) medium rare, done an amount of cooking between rare and well done
* (Brazil) bus stop, taxi stand, a location where passengers wait for a bus or taxi
    Synonym: (Portugal) paragem
    ponto de ônibusbus stop
    ponto de táxitaxi stand
* (historical, measure) Portuguese point, a small unit of length, about equal to 0.2 mm
* point, a unit of measurement for a TV audience
* (theater) an assistant who helps actors with forgotten lines

#### Coordinate terms

* (zero-dimensional object): espaço, plano
* (full stop): ponto de exclamação, ponto de interrogação, ponto-e-vírgula, reticências, vírgula
* (neither well done nor rare): bem-passado, mal-passado
* (unit of length): linha (12 pontos), grão (24 pontos), dedo (96 pontos), polegada (144 pontos)

#### Derived terms

* a ponto de
* a ponto que
* assinar o ponto
* até certo ponto
* bater o ponto
* chegar ao ponto de
* dormir no ponto
* em ponto
* entregar os pontos
* fazer ponto
* no ponto
* pontinho
* ponto aberto
* ponto alto
* ponto cardeal
* ponto cego
* ponto cheio
* ponto crítico
* ponto de bainha
* ponto de bolha
* ponto de equilíbrio
* ponto de exclamação
* ponto de fuga
* ponto de interrogração
* ponto de não-retorno
* ponto de orvalho
* ponto de tricô
* ponto de vista
* ponto e vírgula
* ponto estacionário
* ponto final
* ponto forte
* ponto fraco
* ponto impróprio
* ponto morto
* ponto neutro
* ponto-cruz

#### Related terms

* apontar
* point
* ponta
* ponteira
* ponteiro
* pontuação
* pontuado
* pontuador
* pontual
* pontualidade
* pontuar
* pontuável

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin pontus (“sea”), q.v.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈponto/ [ˈpõn̪.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -onto
* Syllabification: pon‧to

### Noun

ponto m (plural pontos)
* (poetic) sea; the sea

### Further reading

* “ponto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10