Translingual

Proper noun

Uncia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Felidae – the ounce or snow leopard.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Mammalia - class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort; Eutheria - infraclass; Epitheria - magnorder; Laurasiatheria - superorder; Carnivora - order; Feliformia - suborder; Felidae - family; Pantherinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Uncia uncia (snow leopard) - sole species

English

Noun

uncia ‎(plural unciae)

1. (classical studies) A twelfth part, an ounce, or an inch.
2. (pharmacy) An ounce.
3. A bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at one-twelfth of an as.
4. (algebra) A numerical coefficient in a case of the binomial theorem.

Latin

Etymology

From ūnus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈun.ki.a/, [ˈʊŋ.ki.a]

Noun

uncia f ‎(genitive unciae); first declension

1. The twelfth part of something; twelfth.
2. The twelfth part of a pound, ounce.
3. The twelfth part of a foot, inch.
4. The twelfth part of a jugerum.
5. (figuratively) A trifle, bit, atom.

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• Translingual: Uncia
• Ancient Greek: οὐγγία ‎(oungía), οὐγκία ‎(ounkía), ὀγκία ‎(onkía)
  • Greek: ουγγιά ‎(oungiá), ουγκιά ‎(ounkiá)
  • Aramaic:
    • Classical Syriac: ܐܘܢܩܝܐ ‎(ʾūnqīyā), ܢܘܩܝܐ ‎(nūqyā)
      • Arabic: وِقِيَّة ‎(wiqiyya), وُقِيَّة ‎(wuqiyya), أُوقِيَّة ‎(ʾūqiyya)
        • Ottoman Turkish: اوقه ‎(okka)
          • Turkish: okka
          • Armenian: օխա ‎(ōxa), օխկա ‎(ōxka)
          • French: oque
            • Italian: oca
              • English: oka, oke
          • Greek: οκά ‎(oká)
          • Serbo-Croatian: òka / о̀ка
      • Old Armenian: նուկի ‎(nuki)
        • Armenian: նուկի ‎(nuki)
    • Georgian: უნკი ‎(unḳi)
    • Old Armenian: ունկի ‎(unki)
• Catalan: unça
• English: uncia
• Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌺𐌾𐌰 ‎(unkja)
• Friulian: once
• Italian: oncia
• Norman: onche
• Occitan: onça
• Old English: ynce
  • English: inch
• Old French: unce
  • Middle French: once, unce
    • French: once
    • Irish: unsa
    • Middle English: unce, ounce
      • English: ounce
  • Middle Armenian: ունծայ ‎(uncay) (or from some other medieval European language)
• Old Irish: ungae
• Old High German: unza
  • German: Unze
• Portuguese: onça, úncia
• Romanian: uncie
• Romansh: onza, untscha, unza, uonscha
• Russian: у́нция ‎(úncija)
  • Armenian: ունցիա ‎(uncʿia)
  • Georgian: უნცია ‎(uncia)
• Sicilian: oncia, uncia
• Spanish: onza, uncia
• Venetian: onsa, onza, onzha, onça

References

• uncia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• uncia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “uncia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• uncia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• uncia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “ունկի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935, page 603a