punctus

I. A pricking, stinging; a prick, sting, puncture: oculis punctu erutis, Plin. 29, 6, 38, § 131; App. M. 7, p. 196, 11; Scrib. Comp. 206, 208, 209. —

II. A point: mundi, Plin. 2, 68, 68, § 174; cf. Isid. Orig. 11, 1.