English or American ounce (a unit of mass equivalent to 28.35 g or 31.1 g) · clipping of onza líquida, the English or American fluid ounce (a unit of liquid volume equivalent to 28.4 or 29.6 mL) · onza, Spanish ounce (a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 28.76 g)
çekim: çoğul onzas
köken: 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.
English or American ounce, a unit of mass equal to 28.35 g · onça, Portuguese ounce, a traditional unit of mass, usually equivalent to 28.7 g · onça, ounce, a former gold coin weighing one Portuguese ounce
çekim: çoğul onças
eş: jaguar, jaguaretê, ℥
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese onça, 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.
aile: amigo da onça, cutucar a onça com vara curta
köken: Borrowed from Dutch ons, with some sources also listing English ounce. Considering that English ounce would have been borrowed as アウンス (aunsu), the Dutch origin seems more likely. First cited to 1886.
uncia, a coin of the Roman Republic equal to 1/12 as · inch, a length unit, equal to 1/12 of one foot · An insignificantly small length
çekim: çoğul ū̆nciae · tamlayan ū̆nciae
köken: Building upon Varro, most modern Latinists derive this word from ūnicus (“unique”) + -ia, itself from ūnus (“one”) (from Proto-Indo-European *óynos) in the sense of twelfths making up the base unit of various ancient systems of measurement. Following Heron of Alexandria, Weiss instead postulates a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀγκία (onkía, “uncia”), from ὄγκος (ónkos, “weight”); he considers the…
From Latin uncia (“unit, ¹⁄₁₂ Roman pound”). As an English unit, a calque of ounce. Cognate with Spanish onza, Portuguese onça, Catalan unça, French once, Italian oncia, and English ounce and inch.