point (small mark) · point · full stop, period (punctuation mark)
çekim: çoğul points
köken: Inherited from Middle French poinct (with orthography modified to reflect the Latin etymology), from Old French point, from Latin punctum.
aile: à bon vin point d'enseigne, à méchant ouvrier, point de bon outil, à point, à point nommé, à quel point, à tel point que, au plus haut point, au point, au point de, deux points
köken: From the Arabic phrase وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللّٰهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ (wa-s-salāmu ʕalaykum wa-raḥmatu llāhi wa-barakātuhu, “May the peace, mercy, and blessing of God be upon you!”), a phrase used at the end of speeches, especially Islamic ones.
point, a specific spot, location, or place · point, a unit of scoring · point, a topic of discussion
çekim: çoğul pontos
eş: ponto de ônibus, ponto eletrônico
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese ponto, from Latin punctum (“point”), from pungō (“to prick, to puncture, to punch”). Cognate with Spanish punto. Doublet of point.
aile: a ponto de, a ponto que, assinar o ponto, até certo ponto, bater o ponto, chegar ao ponto de, dormir no ponto, em ponto, entregar os pontos, fazer ponto
E em triumpho, aos pulos, contou elle mesmo os sessenta e oito pontos que Carlos perdia.
—Vamos ao ponto essencial… Quanto quer o snr. Palma por me dizer quem lhe encommendou o artigo da Corneta?
Alencar deu um olhar á severa frontaria de convento, adormecida, sem um ponto de luz.
point, dot, full stop, period · point (zero-dimensional object) · point (particular location)
çekim: çoğul pisteet · tamlayan pisteen
köken: From Proto-Finnic *pistek (“sting, prick”). Equivalent to pistää (“to sting, prick”) + -e. Originally a synonym of pisto (“sting; prick, puncture”). First used to mean "period, full stop, dot" by Gustaf Renvall in 1826 and "point" in geometry by Wolmar Schildt in 1835; other meanings derive from those two.