The story
- Latin · derived frompunctum
- Old Galician-Portuguese · derived fromponto
- Portuguese · borrowed fromponto“point”
- English todayponto
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.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.