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名詞

punctum (plural punctums or puncta)

1. (anatomy) A sharp tip of any part of the anatomy; a point or other small area.
   • 1861, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, and Geology:

     Thus, from what has been stated, we see that neither the white puncta nor the minute white branchwork of lines were ever tubular.

2. (music) A neume representing a single tone.

派生語

関連する語

• punctal

語源 2

Coined in 1980 by French literary theorist Roland Barthes in his book Camera Lucida.

名詞

punctum (plural punctums or puncta)

1. (photography) A detail in a photograph that captures the viewer's attention and evokes an emotional response or personal connection beyond the intended subject.
   • 2007, Photography theory, page 87:

     […] the punctum is something that is seen by the viewer, without it being shown to them by the photographer. As such, it functions, according to Fried, as an “ontological guarantee” (553) of a given photograph’s nontheatricality.

   • 2012, Jeff Rice, Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network, page 160:

     Barthes describes the punctum (the nonconnotative or denotative meaning) of the photograph (or movie still) in such a manner; the detail relevant or not relevant to the image's overall meaning becomes the focus of an otherwise forgettable picture […]

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈpuːŋk.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈpuŋk.tum]

名詞

pūnctum n (genitive pūnctī); second declension

1. (also grammar, mathematics) point
   • 1858 [1712], Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, edited by Carl Immanuel Gerhardt and Georg Heinrich Pertz, Gesammelte Werke: Leibnizens mathematische Schriften [Collected Works: Leibniz's Mathematical Writings], volume 5, "In Euclidis πρῶτα" [About the first things of Euclid], page 183:

     I. Pūnctum est cujus pars nūlla est.
     Addendum est, situm habēns. Aliōquī et temporis īnstāns, et Anima pūnctum foret. Sit locus ${\\\\displaystyle {\\\\bar {X}}}$; sī jam quicquid est in locō ${\\\\displaystyle {\\\\bar {X}}}$, sit ${\\\\displaystyle X}$, dīcētur ${\\\\displaystyle X}$ esse pūnctum, quāle ${\\\\displaystyle A}$.

     1. A point is that of which there is no part.
     Having a position must be added. Otherwise, both an instant of time and a Soul would be a point. Let there be a locus ${\\\\displaystyle {\\\\bar {X}}}$; if anything is already in the locus ${\\\\displaystyle {\\\\bar {X}}}$, let it be ${\\\\displaystyle X}$. ${\\\\displaystyle X}$ will be said to be a point, such as ${\\\\displaystyle A}$.

2. puncture
3. moment

   Synonyms: vestīgium, mōmentum

4. small portion
5. an affirmative vote, suffrage, ballot

   Synonym: suffrāgium

6. (poetry) applause, approbation

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

同意語

• pūnctus

派生した語

参照

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