onça

See also: onca and ONCA

Portuguese
Uma onça (jaguar).

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Latin uncia (“twelfth part; trifle”), from ūnus (“one”).

Noun

onça f (plural onças)

  1. ounce (a unit of weight equivalent to 28.3495g)
  2. (historical) a gold coin weighing approximately an ounce

Etymology 2

From Italian lonza, from Vulgar Latin *luncea, from Latin lynx, from Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx), from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“to shine, bright, to see”).

Noun

onça f (plural onças)

  1. jaguar (Panthera onca, a feline of the Americas)
  2. (Angola) leopard (Panthera pardus, a feline of Africa and Asia)
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