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English

Etymology

From Middle English ones (genitive of on (“one”) used adverbally), from Old English ?nes (“of one”), genitive of ?n (“one”). Compare Old Saxon ?nes (“once”), Old High German ein?st (“once”) (German einst). More at one (including regarding the development of the pronunciation) and -s.

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?n(t)s, IPA^(key): /w?n(t)s/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /w?n(t)s/, /w?n(t)s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /w?n(t)s/
• Rhymes: -?ns

Adverb

once (not comparable)

1. (frequency) One and only one time.

2. (temporal location) Formerly; during some period in the past.
3. (mathematics) Multiplied by one: indicating that a number is multiplied by one.

4. (obsolete) at any time; ever;

   • The wisdom of God thought fit to acquaint David with that court which we shall once govern.

   If the facts once became known, we'd be in trouble.

Synonyms

• (one time): See Thesaurus:once
• (formerly): See Thesaurus:formerly

Coordinate terms

• (one time): twice, thrice, often, never, seldom
• (formerly): yesterday, tomorrow

Derived terms

• Christmas comes but once a year
• once-in-a-lifetime

Translations

See also

• at once
• once again, once more
• once and for all
• once in a blue moon
• once in a while
• once removed
• once upon a time

Conjunction

once

1. As soon as; when; after.

   We'll get a move on once we find the damn car keys!

   Once you have obtained the elven bow, return to the troll bridge and trade it for the sleeping potion.

   Once he is married, he will be able to claim the inheritance.

Translations

Anagrams

• Coen, Cone, Econ., Noce, ceno-, coen-, cone, cœn-, econ, econ.

Aragonese

Alternative forms

• onze

Etymology

From Latin ?ndecim.

Numeral

once

1. eleven

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin ?ndecim.

Numeral

once (indeclinable)

1. eleven

Derived terms

• oncenu

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s/

Etymology 1

From Latin uncia.

Noun

once f (plural onces)

1. ounce (avoirdupois ounce)
2. (figuratively, by extension) a little bit

Etymology 2

From Old French lonce which became l'once (la + once), itself from Vulgar Latin *luncea, from Latin lynx, ultimately from Ancient Greek ???? (lúnx), or possibly borrowed from Italian lonza.

Noun

once f (plural onces)

1. snow leopard

Anagrams

• cône, noce

Further reading

• “once” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin uncia.

Noun

once f (plural oncis)

1. ounce

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese onze, from Latin ?ndecim.

Pronunciation

Numeral

once (indeclinable)

1. eleven

Italian

Noun

once f

1. plural of oncia

Anagrams

• ceno, cenò, noce

Middle English

Adverb

once

1. Alternative form of ones

Spanish

Alternative forms

• onze (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?on?e/, [?õn?.?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?onse/, [?õn.se]

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish onze, ondze, from Latin ?ndecim.

Numeral

once

1. eleven

Derived terms

• onceno

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: onse
• ? Tagalog: onse

Etymology 2

Snacks were typically taken at 11 am.

Noun

once f (plural onces)

1. (Latin America) elevenses, snack (bread with tea or coffee)

Further reading

• “once” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Translingual

Etymology

From English one

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?wan]

Numeral

one

1. Code word for the digit 1 in the NATO/ICAO spelling alphabet

Synonyms

ITU/IMO code word unaone

References

English

Alternative forms

• wone, o (both obsolete)
• (Arabic numeral): 1 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
• (Roman numeral): I

Etymology

From Middle English one, on, oan, an, from Old English ?n (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“single, one”). Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); North Frisian ån (“one”); Saterland Frisian aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ?nus (“one”) (Old Latin oinos); Russian ????? (odín). Doublet of Uno.

Use as indefinite personal pronoun influenced by unrelated French on.

Verb form from Middle English onen.

Around the 14th century, in southwest and western England, the word began to be pronounced with an initial /w/ (compare e.g. woak, Middle English wocke, a dialectal form of oak), and the spellings won and wone began to be found alongside on, one; the /w/ had become the norm by the 18th century. In alone, atone, and only, as well as in the dialectal form un, 'un (and in none and no), the older pronunciations without /w/ are preserved, while once shows the same /w/.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w?n/, [w?n]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /wan/, [wän]
• • Homophone: won (Etymology 1)
• (UK) IPA^(key): /w?n/
  • Rhymes: -?n
  • Homophone: won (Etymologies 2 and 3)
• (US) enPR: w?n, IPA^(key): /w?n/
  • Rhymes: -?n
  • Homophone: won (Etymology 1)
• (obsolete) enPR: ?n, IPA^(key): /o?n/

Numeral

one

1. The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
2. (number theory) The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
3. (set theory) The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
4. (mathematics) The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.

Synonyms

• yan (Northumbria, Cumbria)

Derived terms

• one-armed bandit
• ones and zeroes

Related terms

• first (ordinal)
• none
• once
• onesome

Translations

See one/translations § Numeral.

Pronoun

one (reflexive oneself, possessive adjective one’s, plural ones)

1. (impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
2. (impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
   • 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations

     Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

3. (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general).
4. (pronoun) Any person, entity or thing.

Usage notes

• See they.

Synonyms

• (unidentified person): you, they (in nominative personal case)

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

one (plural ones)

1. The digit or figure 1.
2. (mathematics) The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
3. (US) A one-dollar bill.
4. One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
5. (cricket) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
6. A joke or amusing anecdote.

7. (colloquial) A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
   • 1995, Bryan Adams, Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?

     When you love a woman then tell her / that she's really wanted / When you love a woman then tell her that she's the one / 'cause she needs somebody to tell her / that it's gonna last forever

8. (Internet slang, leetspeak, sarcastic) Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1".
   • 2003 September 26, "DEAL WITH IT!!!!11one!!", in alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube, Usenet
   • 2004 November 9, "AWK sound recorder!!!11!!11one", in comp.lang.awk, Usenet
   • 2007 December 1, "STANFORD!!1!!1!one!11!!1oneone!1!1!", in rec.sport.football.college, Usenet

Synonyms

• (mathematics: multiplicative identity): unity
• (US: one-dollar bill): single
• (sarcastic substitution for !): 1, eleven

Translations

Adjective

one (not comparable)

1. Of a period of time, being particular.

2. Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.

3. Sole, only.

4. Whole, entire.

5. In agreement.

6. The same.

7. Being a preeminent example.

8. Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain".

Translations

Derived terms

Verb

one (third-person singular simple present ones, present participle oning, simple past and past participle oned)

1. To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite.

   • Toldyng of temporell ordinaunce , assembled and oned in the lokyng of the Divine thoughte

See also

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

References

Anagrams

• EON, NEO, NOE, Neo, Noe, eno-, eon, neo, neo-

Aiwoo

Verb

one

1. to hunt

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) , “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *q?nay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o.ne/

Noun

one

1. sand

Japanese

Romanization

one

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Kustenau

Noun

one

1. water

References

• Anales: Sección historico-filosófica (Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo), volume 1 (2), part 1

Mangarevan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *q?nay.

Noun

one

1. sand

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *q?nay.

Noun

one

1. beach
2. sand, mud
3. soil, earth

Middle English

Etymology 1

Preposition

one

1. Alternative form of on

Adverb

one

1. Alternative form of on (“on”)

Etymology 2

Numeral

one

1. Alternative form of on

Etymology 3

Adverb

one

1. Alternative form of on (“singly”)

Etymology 4

Noun

one (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of hone (“delay”)

Etymology 5

Verb

one (third-person singular simple present oneth, present participle onynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle oned)

1. Alternative form of onen

Etymology 6

Verb

one (third-person singular simple present an, present participle onende, first-/third-person singular past indicative oðe, past participle onen)

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of unnen

Etymology 7

Noun

one (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of wone (“course”)

Etymology 8

Noun

one (plural ones)

1. Alternative form of oven

Etymology 9

Adjective

one

1. Alternative form of owen

Niuean

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *q?nay.

Noun

one

1. sand
2. gunpowder

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *?nu (“without”). Cognates include Old Saxon ?no and Old Dutch *?na.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ne/

Preposition

one

1. except

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ony, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ónos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.n?/

Pronoun

one pl

1. nominative plural of ona; they; nonvirile third-person plural pronoun, used for all groups not containing men

Declension

Related terms

• oni (masculine personal)
• ten

See also

• Appendix:Polish pronouns

Further reading

• one in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Rarotongan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *q?nay.

Noun

one

1. sand

Samoan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *q?nay.

Noun

one

1. sand

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ony, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ónos

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ne/
• Hyphenation: o?ne

Pronoun

òne (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. they (nominative plural of òna (“she”)); nonvirile third-person plural pronoun, used for all groups not containing men
2. masculine plural accusative of onaj

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???n?/

Pronoun

óne

1. they (feminine plural, more than two)

Inflection

Forms between parentheses indicate clitic forms; the main forms are used for emphasis.

See also

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *q?nay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.ne/

Noun

one

1. sand
2. dust

References

• “one” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

Tikopia

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *q?nay.

Noun

one

1. sand

Tokelauan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qone (“sand”). Cognates include Hawaiian one and Samoan one.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o.ne/
• Hyphenation: o?ne

Noun

one

1. beach of sand
2. gunpowder

Derived terms

• oneone

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary?^[5], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 38

Tuamotuan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *q?nay.

Noun

one

1. sand

Volapük

Pronoun

one

1. (dative singular of on) to it