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punctual
c.1400, from M.L.
punctualis
(c.1210), from L.
punctus
"a pricking" (see
point
). Originally "having a sharp point;" meaning "prompt" first recorded 1675, from notion of "insisting on fine points."
Punctuality
"exactness" is from 1620.