Where does “punto” come from?

punto (Esperanto) comes from Italian punto, from Latin pūnctum, from Latin punctus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

punto (Esperanto): lace

Definitions

  1. lace

Ancestry of “punto”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianpuntopoint all senses, jot, iota
2Latinpūnctumpoint
3Latinpunctuspricked, punctured, pierced, having been pricked;...
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus—
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →