Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

punctum caecum

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.46 in modern English

Syllables: punc-tum -cae-cum
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The blind spot in the eye.

Example Sentences

"It was perhaps three minutes later when an excited gentleman in the state of disrobement that is tacitly regarded as falling upon the punctum caecum in times of fire, flood and nocturnal emergency shot out of the door of No. 7 and bounding up the intervening flights of steps pounded with the knocker on the door of No. 9."

Etymology

Latin

Questions

What does punctum caecum mean?: The blind spot in the eye.
Where does punctum caecum come from?: Latin

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