onza

Meaning

1. (feminine) English or American ounce (a unit of mass equivalent to 28.35 g or 31.1 g)
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, feminine) Clipping of onza líquida, the English or American fluid ounce (a unit of liquid volume equivalent to 28.4 or 29.6 mL)
3. (feminine, historical) onza, Spanish ounce (a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 28.76 g)

Concepts

ounce

cheetahs

rounce

oz.

cheetah

ounce

snow leopard

Acinonyx

Synonyms

onza de cuero

jaguar

vez

⌚

Acinonyx

onz.

onza del peso

onza el peso

irbis

guepardo

tigre americano

Hyphenated as

on‧za

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈonθa/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin uncia (“unit, ¹⁄₁₂ Roman pound”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”). As an English unit, a calque of ounce. Cognate with Galician onza, Portuguese onça, Catalan unça, French once, Italian oncia, and English ounce and inch.