The story
- Medieval Latin · borrowed frompunctus“punctuation mark”
- English todaypunctus
From Medieval Latin punctus (“punctuation mark”).
Words from the same roots
Medieval Latinpunctus all →
punctuate
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
punctus
Today it means: The basic dot (‧) used to end a sentence in medieval punctuation (ancestral to the full stop/period). Full definition →
Medieval Latin punctus