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puncta delentia

puncta delentia is the plural of punctum delens.

Meaning of punctum delens

Noun

punctum delens (plural puncta delentia)

  1. A dot placed above a letter to indicate that it is a copying error and should be ignored.
  2. A dot placed above a consonant in Irish, when it is written in Gaelic script, to indicate that the consonant is lenited.

Questions about puncta delentia

What is puncta delentia the plural of?
Puncta delentia is the plural of punctum delens.

Words near puncta delentia in the dictionary

  1. punchy
  2. puncing
  3. punck
  4. punct
  5. puncta
  6. puncta delentia
  7. punctae
  8. punctal
  9. punctal plug
  10. punctal plugs
  11. punctate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: puncta delentia (page history and authors); punctum delens (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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