onça

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See also: onca and ONCA

Portuguese

Uma onça (jaguar).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: on‧ça

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin uncia (“twelfth part; trifle”), from ūnus (“one”).

Noun

onça f (plural s)

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

onça f (plural s)

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