Wiktionary

punt

See also: Punt and pùnt

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

punt (plural punts)

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

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.
  2. Of a fish, to walk along the seafloor using its fins as limbs.
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Etymology 2Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

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.
  5. (colloquial, transitive) To eject; to kick out of a place.
    • 2001, Roger A. Grimes, Malicious Mobile Code: Virus Protection for Windows, page 236:
      The user is punted from the channel, and must rejoin to gain access.
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NounEdit

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.
TranslationsEdit
 
Empty bottle showing the punt as the indentation in the base
See alsoEdit

Etymology 3Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

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. E.g anyone up for a punt on Randwick?(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.
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VerbEdit

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

  1. To play at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
    • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 38, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
      Here it was that, guarded by double doors, Sir Francis smoked cigars, and read Bell’s Life in London, and went to sleep after dinner, when he was not smoking over the billiard-table at his clubs, or punting at the gambling-houses in Saint James’s.
  2. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK) To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally
    • 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:
      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.
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Etymology 4Edit

Borrowed from Irish punt, from Middle English pund.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

punt (plural punts)

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

Further readingEdit

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Latin punctum. Cognate with Spanish and Galician punto and Portuguese ponto.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

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)

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Further readingEdit

DutchEdit

 
Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
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PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from Latin punctum.

NounEdit

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.
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Etymology 2Edit

From French point, from Latin punctus.

NounEdit

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
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IrishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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 formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

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

  1. pound (unit of weight, unit of currency)
DeclensionEdit
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

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Etymology 2Edit

From English pound.

NounEdit

punt m (genitive singular puint, nominative plural puint)

  1. (of enclosure) pound
DeclensionEdit
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 3Edit

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

NounEdit

punt m (genitive singular puint, nominative plural puint)

  1. butt(-end)
  2. tip (of finger)
DeclensionEdit
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

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Etymology 4Edit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

punt

  1. Alternative form of puinn

MutationEdit

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 readingEdit

MalteseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Sicilian puntu and/or Italian punto, from Latin punctum.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

punt m (plural punti)

  1. dot, point
    Synonym: tikka
  2. point (in time or space, an item on a list etc.)
  3. point (unit of scoring in a competition)

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ManxEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

punt m (genitive singular punt, plural puint)

  1. (numismatics, unit of measure) pound

Derived termsEdit

MutationEdit

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.

ReferencesEdit

Old FrenchEdit

NounEdit

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

  1. Alternative form of pont

RomanianEdit

NounEdit

punt m (plural punți)

  1. Alternative form of pfund

DeclensionEdit

Declension of punt
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) punt puntul (niște) punți punții
genitive/dative (unui) punt puntului (unor) punți punților
vocative puntule punților

RomanschEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

punt m (plural punts)

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

SloveneEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pȕnt m inan

  1. revolt

InflectionEdit

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

WelshEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Old English pund.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

punt f (plural punnoedd or punnau)

  1. (numismatics) pound (sterling)
    • 1874 May 20, “Llundain a'ch "Ewyrth"”, in Baner ac Amserau Cymru, page 13:
      Costiodd yr holl adeiladau hyn tua deg a thrigain mil o bunnau.
      All these buildings cost about seventy thousand pounds.
  2. (obsolete) pound (weight)
    Synonym: pwys

MutationEdit

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.

ReferencesEdit

  • 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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