different between uncia vs unciae

English

Etymology

1685–95, from Latin uncia. Compare Latin ?nus (“one”). Doublet of inch and ounce.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n?i.?/

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, obsolete) A numerical coefficient in a case of the binomial theorem.

Latin

Etymology

From ?nus.

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Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?n.ki.a/, [?u??kiä] or IPA^(key): /?un.ki.a/, [???kiä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?un.t??i.a/, [?un??t??i?]

The length of the vowel in the first syllable is uncertain. Although the vowel is etymologically long, there is evidence that originally long vowels could be shortened before consonant clusters starting in resonant consonants such as [?] in Latin (a similar sound change by the name of Osthoff's Law occurred in Greek). French once represents a Latin form ?ncia with a short vowel.

Noun

??ncia f (genitive ??nciae); 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.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• teruncius
• deunx
• quincunx
• septunx

Descendants

• Translingual: Uncia
• Ancient Greek: ?????? (oungía), ?????? (ounkía), ????? (onkía)
  • Greek: ?????? (oungiá), ?????? (ougkiá)
  • Aramaic:
    • Classical Syriac: ??????? (??nq?y?), ?????? (n?qy?)
      • Arabic: ????????? (wiqiyya), ????????? (wuqiyya), ?????????? (??qiyya)
        • Ottoman Turkish: ????? (okka)
          • Turkish: okka
          • Armenian: ??? (?xa), ???? (?xka)
          • French: oque
            • Italian: oca
              • English: oka, oke
          • Greek: ??? (oká)
          • Serbo-Croatian: òka / ????
        • French: ouguiya
          • English: ouguiya, ougiya
      • Old Armenian: ????? (nuki)
        • Armenian: ????? (nuki)
    • Georgian: ???? (un?i)
    • Old Armenian: ????? (unki)
• Catalan: unça
• English: uncia
• Gothic: ???????????????????? (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: ?????? (uncay) (or from some other medieval European language)
• Old Irish: ungae
  • Irish: uinge
• Old High German: unza
  • German: Unze
• Polish: uncja
• Portuguese: onça, úncia
• Romanian: uncie
• Romansch: onza, untscha, unza, uonscha
• Russian: ?????? (úncija)
  • Armenian: ?????? (unc?ia)
  • Georgian: ????? (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
• uncia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, 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
• A?a?ean, Hra??eay (1977) , “?????”, in Hayer?n armatakan ba?aran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 603a

English

Noun

unciae

1. plural of uncia

Anagrams

• eucain

Latin

Noun

?nciae

1. nominative plural of ?ncia
2. genitive singular of ?ncia
3. dative singular of ?ncia
4. vocative plural of ?ncia