Noun: onça
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | onça |
| Plural f | onças |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like onça
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Latin Nouns '
uncia', English Nouns '
ounce', Spanish Nouns '
onza', Catalan Nouns '
unça', French Nouns '
once', English Nouns '
ounce'.
Verbs referencing "onça"
English Nouns
onça, Galician Nouns
onza, Spanish Nouns
onza.
Translations