uncialis
Latin edit
Etymology edit
uncia (“ounce, the twelfth part of something”) + -ālis
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /un.kiˈaː.lis/, [ʊŋkiˈäːlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /un.t͡ʃiˈa.lis/, [un̠ʲt͡ʃiˈäːlis]
Adjective edit
unciālis (neuter unciāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- uncial (of or pertaining to a twelfth part or ounce)
- (Late Latin) uncial (of or pertaining to the uncial style of writing)
- unciālēs litterae ― uncial letters
Declension edit
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | unciālis | unciāle | unciālēs | unciālia | |
| Genitive | unciālis | unciālium | |||
| Dative | unciālī | unciālibus | |||
| Accusative | unciālem | unciāle | unciālēs unciālīs |
unciālia | |
| Ablative | unciālī | unciālibus | |||
| Vocative | unciālis | unciāle | unciālēs | unciālia | |
Descendants edit
- → Italian: onciale (semi-learned)
References edit
- “uncialis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vnciales in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- uncialis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.