punctorium

== Latin == === Etymology === From pungō (“prick, puncture”) + -tōrium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [puːŋkˈtoː.ri.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [puŋkˈtɔː.ri.um] === Noun === pūnctōrium n (genitive pūnctōriī or pūnctōrī); second declension an instrument for pricking or puncturing ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “punctorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “punctorium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. "punctorium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)