ounce

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ounce

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /aʊns/
Rhymes: -aʊns

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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 ℥

An avoirdupois ounce, weighing 1/16 of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.3495 grams.
A troy ounce, weighing 1/12 of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1035 grams.
A US fluid ounce, with a volume of 1/16 of a US pint, 1.804 687 cubic inches or 29.573 531 milliliters.
A British imperial fluid ounce, with a volume of 1/20 of an imperial pint, 1.733871 cubic inches or 28.413063 millilitres.
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 si⁶^-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.