different between uncia vs uncial

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.

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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

Etymology 1

Attested 1650, from Latin uncia (“a twelfth part, ounce, inch”).

Adjective

uncial (comparative more uncial, superlative most uncial)

1. (rare) Of or relating to an ounce, or an inch, especially to letters printed an inch high.

Etymology 2

Attested 1712, from Late Latin unciales (“uncials”), unciales litterae (“uncial letters”) (Jerome), plural of uncialis (“pertaining to one twelfth part, ounce, or inch”), from uncia (“one twelfth part, ounce, inch”). The literal meaning is unclear: some references indicate "inch-high letters", but see “Uncial script” in Wikipedia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.si.?l/, /??n.?i.?l/, /??n.??l/

Adjective

uncial (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a majuscule style of writing with unjoined, rounded letters, originally used in the 4th–9th centuries.

Translations

Noun

uncial (plural uncials)

1. A style of writing using uncial letters.
2. A letter in this style.
3. A manuscript in this style.

Translations

Derived terms

• semi-uncial, half-uncial

Related terms

• uncia
• ounce
• inch

References

Anagrams

• Alcuin, Lucian, Lucina

Spanish

Adjective

uncial (plural unciales)

1. uncial

Noun

uncial f (plural unciales)

1. uncial