uncia

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[uhn-shee-uh] / ˈʌn ʃi ə /

noun

• unciae
  plural

1. a bronze coin of ancient Rome, the 12th part of an as.

2. (in prescriptions) an ounce of weight or volume.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• unciae
  plural

Etymology

Origin of uncia

1685–95; < Latin: a twelfth part, akin to ūnus one; cf. inch ¹

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

uncia unciae

This is the Felis uncia, allied to the panther and the cheetah.

From Milton's Comus by William Bell

The counters were made of various materials, ivory principally, “Adeo nulla uncia nobis est eboris, etc.”

From The Earliest Arithmetics in English by Robert Steele

Such liquation cakes should weigh up to three centumpondia, in each of which there is half an uncia of silver.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

Five of these are placed at the same time in the furnace in which silver-lead is liquated from copper; these drip three centumpondia of lead, each of which contains half an uncia of silver.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

In the same way, from eleven cartloads of quaternary cakes thrice roasted, he makes the "final" cakes, of which one centumpondium contains only half an uncia of silver.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

Another way is to take two unciae of ore, a semi-uncia of litharge, two drachmae of Venetian glass and a semi-uncia of saltpetre.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

Then the silver is sprinkled with two unciae of that powdered compound and is stirred.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

As the Roman libra contains 12 unciae and the German pfundt 16 untzen, the actual weights of these latter quantities are still further apart—the former 4946 and the latter 7219 Troy grains.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

Another contains a libra of brick dust, a third of refined salt, and one and a half unciae of vitriol.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

Another way is to take two unciae of prepared ore, five drachmae of roasted copper, one uncia of glass, or glass-galls reduced to powder, a semi-uncia of salt, and mix them.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola