Translation
point of view, viewpoint
Word origin
A compound of vidi, to see, and punkto, a point, formed on the model of French point de vue and German Gesichtspunkt. Punkto itself is Latin punctum, something pricked, from pungere, to prick.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- punctum
- English cognates
- point, puncture, punctual
Examples
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From my point of view the plan is a good one.
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Everyone has their own point of view.
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We discussed the matter from two points of view.
A transparent compound: vid- plus , built the way Esperanto builds most of its abstractions. The idiom is , from a point of view, using rather than . Starpunkto - standpoint - is its close neighbour and leans a little more towards a position taken in an argument.
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