uncia

Etymology
From, ultimately from. .

Noun

 * 1)  The Roman ounce, 1/12 of a Roman pound.
 * 2)  The Roman inch, 1/12 of a Roman foot.
 * 3)  A bronze coin minted by the Roman Republic, 1/12 of an as.
 * 4)  A Roman unit of land area, 1/12 of a jugerum.
 * , the English and American avoirdupois unit of mass.
 * 1)  A numerical coefficient in a binomial.
 * 1)  A numerical coefficient in a binomial.

Etymology 1
Ultimately from in the sense of twelfths making up the base unit of various ancient systems of measurement. (“one”) and sometimes said to derive directly from it, possibly in the sense of the individual units together composing the whole. Possibly related to and  from the practice of counting to 12 using the thumb and knuckles of the right hand.

Pronunciation


It is uncertain whether long or short U occurred in ū̆ncia and in its compounds ending in -ū̆nx, -ū̆ncis. The etymologically related word has long ū, and Bennett (1907) marks long ū in ūncia, quīncūnx, quīncūnxis. However, originally long vowels could be shortened in Latin before consonant clusters starting in resonant consonants such as [ŋ] (this shortening can be referred to as "Osthoff's Law", which is the name of a similar sound change that occurred in Greek). A Latin form ŭncia with a short vowel is represented by French, Italian , Spanish among others.

Noun

 * 1)  uncia,
 * 2)  uncia,
 * 3) inch,
 * 4)  inch,
 * 5)  uncia,
 * 6) ounce,
 * 7)  ounce, bit, trifle,
 * 8)  uncia,
 * 9) twelfth,

Etymology 2
From under influence from  (, “ounce”), from false division of  mistaking its initial l for the article, from  possibly via , from , from. First used in reference to the snow leopard by in 1777 as  uncia.

Noun

 * 1)  snow leopard