ounce

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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /aʊns/
• Rhymes: -aʊns

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle French once, from Latin uncia (“1/12 part”), from ūnus (“one”). Doublet of inch.

NounEdit

ounce (plural ounces) abbreviation oz. or ℥

1. An avoirdupois ounce, weighing 1/16 of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.3495 grams.
2. A troy ounce, weighing 1/12 of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1035 grams.
3. A US fluid ounce, with a volume of 1/16 of a US pint, 1.804 687 cubic inches or 29.573 531 milliliters.
4. A British imperial fluid ounce, with a volume of 1/20 of an imperial pint, 1.733871 cubic inches or 28.413063 millilitres.
5. A little bit.

   He didn't feel even an ounce of regret for his actions.

SynonymsEdit

• (avoirdupois ounce): symbol: ℥ (pharmacy)
• (small amount): see also Thesaurus:modicum

Related termsEdit

• inch

TranslationsEdit

28.3495 g

• Albanian: ons f
• Arabic: أُوقِيَّة‎‎ f (ʾūqiyya), وِقِيَّة‎‎ f (wiqiyya), أَوْنْس‎‎ m (ʾawns), أونصة‎‎ f (ʾunṣa), أونسة‎‎ f (ʾunsa)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܐܘܢܩܝܐ‎‎ f (ʾūnqīyā)

• Armenian: ունցիա (hy) (uncʿia), ունկի (hy) (unki)
• Bengali: আউন্স (ā'unsa)
• Catalan: unça f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 安士 (on¹ si^6-2)

  Mandarin: 盎司 (zh) (àngsī)

• Czech: unce (cs) f
• Dutch: (equals 100 g) ons (nl) n
• Esperanto: unco (eo)
• Faroese: unsa f
• Finnish: unssi (fi)
• French: once (fr) f
• Friulian: once f
• Galician: onza f
• Ge'ez: ወቄት (wäḳet)
• German: Unze (de) f
• Greek: ουγγιά (el) f (oungiá)
• Hindi: औंस (hi) (auns)
• Hungarian: uncia (hu)
• Indonesian: ons (id)
• Irish: unsa m, uinge f (literary)

  Old Irish: ungae f

• Italian: oncia (it) f

• Japanese: オンス (onsu)
• Korean: 온스 (onseu)
• Latvian: unce f
• Lithuanian: uncija f
• Malay: auns
• Maltese: uqija f
• Maori: aunihi
• Mongolian: унци (untsi)
• Norman: onche f
• Occitan: onça f
• Polish: uncja (pl) f
• Portuguese: onça (pt) f
• Romansch: onza f, untscha, unza, uonscha
• Russian: у́нция (ru) f (úncija)
• Scottish Gaelic: unnsa m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̑нца f

  Roman: ȗnca (sh) f

• Sicilian: oncia f, uncia
• Spanish: onza (es) f
• Swahili: wakia
• Swedish: uns (sv)
• Tagalog: onsa
• Turkish: ons (tr)
• Uzbek: untsiya
• Venetian: onsa f, onza, onzha, onça
• Zulu: awunsi

Etymology 2Edit

From French once, from lonce (“lynx”), by false division (the l was thought to be the article), from Latin lynx, from Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx, “lynx”). Interestingly, the taxon of the snow leopard is a Latinisation using the root of ounce (1).

NounEdit

ounce (plural ounces)

1. The snow leopard, Uncia uncia.

ReferencesEdit

• snow leopard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Uncia uncia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Uncia uncia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

AnagramsEdit

• Cuneo, cuneo-, on cue