punctorium

Latin

Etymology

From pungō (“prick, puncture”) +‎ -tōrium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /puːnkˈtoː.ri.um/, [puːŋkˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /punkˈto.ri.um/, [puŋkˈt̪ɔːrium]

Noun

pūnctōrium n (genitive pūnctōriī or pūnctōrī); second declension

1. an instrument for pricking or puncturing

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pūnctōrium	pūnctōria
Genitive	pūnctōriī pūnctōrī1	pūnctōriōrum
Dative	pūnctōriō	pūnctōriīs
Accusative	pūnctōrium	pūnctōria
Ablative	pūnctōriō	pūnctōriīs
Vocative	pūnctōrium	pūnctōria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “punctorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• punctorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• punctorium 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)