Noun: ounce
| Sg. | ounce |
| Pl. | ounces; ounce |
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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By ounces henge his lokkes that he hadde / And therwith he his shuldres overspradde (By very little hung the locks that he had; / He draped them over his shoulders) [a. 1394, Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2019, lines 677–678:]
Nouns inflected like ounce
busshel,
difference,
locuste,
grace,
ounce,
pirie,
wyspe,
stage,
vitaile,
manere,
couple,
cubite,
norice,
perche,
playce,
pater noster,
vessel,
wonder,
game,
lege, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle French once, from Old French once, unce, from Latin uncia. Doublet of ynche. See: Latin Nouns '
uncia'.
Verbs referencing "ounce"
English Nouns
ounce.
Translations