Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uŋkt
- Syllabification: punkt
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Latin pūnctum.[1][2][3] First attested in 1566.[4][5] Doublet of puenta.
Noun
punkt m inan (diminutive punkcik, abbreviation p. or pkt)
- point (discernable dot against a background of other things)
- Near-synonym: kropka
- (mathematics, sciences) point (zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction)
- point (place designated for a particular task)
- Synonym: miejsce
- point (stage of some action)
- point (element of a list)
- (literary) point (part of a written or oral statement)
- (board games, sports, video games) point (unit of scoring in a game or competition)
- point (distinguishing quality or characteristic)
- (editorial) point (basic unit of measurement of the length or size of fonts and other elements used in printing, approximately equal to, depending on the calculation system used, from 0.35 to 0.37 millimeters)
- point (position on an issue)
- point (spatial or temporal border)
- (obsolete) task
- Synonym: zadanie
- (obsolete) order, command
- Synonym: rozkaz
- (obsolete, anatomy) duct, particularly tear duct
- (obsolete, cartography) cardinal direction
- (obsolete, billiards) hole on a billiards table
- (obsolete) bay
- Synonyms: haf, zatoka
- (Middle Polish) section of text; paragraph; article
- (Middle Polish) issue, affair, matter, business, thing
- Synonyms: kwestia, rzecz, sprawa
Declension
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Derived terms
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- punkt widzenia zależy od punktu siedzenia
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- ruszyć z martwego punktu pf, ruszać z martwego punktu impf
- utknąć w martwym punkcie pf, utykać w martwym punkcie impf
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Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), punkt is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 128 times in scientific texts, 54 times in news, 73 times in essays, 13 times in fiction, and 16 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 284 times, making it the 179th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[6]
Etymology 2
Ellipsis of punkt w punkt.[7] First attested in the 19th century.[8]
References
Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “punkt”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “punkt”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “punkt I”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
Ida Kurcz (1990) “punkt”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 478
Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “punkt II”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
Further reading
- punkt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- punkt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “PUNKT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 03.06.2009
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “punkt”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “punkt”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861