puño

See also: puno, puñó, and puno'

Galician

Alternative forms

• punho (Reintegrationist)

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese punno, puno, from Latin pugnus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuɲo̝/

Noun

puño m (plural puños)

1. fist
   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: CSIC, page 117:

     Ferragudo desque a perdeu coudou a matar Rrulan, et çarrou o puño et doulle cõ el ẽna cabeça do caualo et matoullo.

     Ferragut, as soon as he lost it, decided to kill Roland; and he closed his fist and stroke it on the horse's head, killing it

2. handle

   Synonyms: empuñadura, mazá, pomo

3. fistful

   Synonyms: presa, puñado

4. cuff (of a shirt, etc.)

Related terms

• puñada
• puñal
• puñazo

References

• “puño” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “puñ” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “puño” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “puño” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “puño” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

puño

1. first-person singular present indicative of puñar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuɲo/ [ˈpu.ɲo]

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• Rhymes: -uɲo
• Syllabification: pu‧ño

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin pugnus, from Proto-Italic *pugnos, from Proto-Indo-European *puǵnos, Proto-Indo-European *puḱnos, from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“prick, punch”). Compare English poniard.

Noun

puño m (plural puños)

1. fist (hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward)
2. fistful, handful, bunch (amount that can be contained in the hand)
3. wristband, cuff (end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist)
4. handle, hilt (part of a tool, weapon, or other object, that is designed to be held in the hand when used)

Derived terms

• apretar los puños
• de puño y letra
• empuñadura
• empuñar
• puñado
• puñal
• puñar
• puñetazo
• puñete
• puño americano
• puño de acero

 

Descendants

• →⇒? Murui Huitoto: pute

Etymology 2

Verb

puño

1. first-person singular present indicative of puñar

Further reading

• “puño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014