means A point is a single sharp tip, a specific spot or moment, a unit of score, or the particular idea you're trying to get across.

from From Latin 'pungere,' meaning 'to prick or pierce' — the same sharp ancestor behind 'puncture' and 'pungent.' Its past participle 'punctum' meant 'a thing pricked,' which softened over time into the French 'point,' covering everything from the tip of a needle to a tiny mark on a page to a fixed spot in space. So a point has always been about the smallest, sharpest possible thing — the prick of a pin that somehow carries the whole weight of an argument.