Feminine
onça
Meaning
- (feminine) English or American ounce, a unit of mass equal to 28.35 g
- (feminine, historical) onça, Portuguese ounce, a traditional unit of mass, usually equivalent to 28.7 g
- (feminine, historical) onça, ounce, a former gold coin weighing one Portuguese ounce
Concepts
Panthera pardus
Panthera onca
Acinonyx
Felis onca
Panthera tigris
Panthera uncia
Synonyms
Onça
Onça-Pintada
Tigres
jaguartê
Acinonyx
Onça Pintada
Onça pintada
Translations
once
onza
oncia
Unze
ons
onsFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈõ.sɐ/
Etymology
In summary
From Latin uncia (“unit, ¹⁄₁₂ pound”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”). As an English unit, a semantic loan of English ounce. Cognate with Galician and Spanish onza, Catalan unça, French once, and English ounce and inch.
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