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punto.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
punto.
Principal English Translation: 

a point; can have a musical referent

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yni chicuntlet puntus yc momachiotia = son siete puntos que deben marcarse (seventeenth-century Guatemala)
Fernando Horcasitas y Alfred Lemmon, "El Tratado de Santa Eulalia: un manuscrito musical náhuatl," Tlalocan 12 (1997), 96–97.