interpunctio

Latin

Etymology

From inter- +‎ punctio.

Noun

interpūnctiō f (genitive interpūnctiōnis); third declension

1. punctuation (placing of points between words)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	interpūnctiō	interpūnctiōnēs
genitive	interpūnctiōnis	interpūnctiōnum
dative	interpūnctiōnī	interpūnctiōnibus
accusative	interpūnctiōnem	interpūnctiōnēs
ablative	interpūnctiōne	interpūnctiōnibus
vocative	interpūnctiō	interpūnctiōnēs

Descendants

• Italian: interpunzione

References

• “interpunctio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “interpunctio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “interpunctio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.