onça

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See also: onca and ONCA

English

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Etymology

From Portuguese onça, from Latin uncia (“unit, 1⁄12 pound”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”).

Noun

onça (plural onças)

  1. (historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, usually equivalent to 28.7 g.

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Catalan

Etymology

From earlier leonça by misdivision, and this from Old French leonce or Italian lonza. Cognate with English ounce (“snow leopard”).

Pronunciation

Noun

onça f (plural onces)

  1. a name applied to various large felids, such as the cheetah or the jaguar
    Synonym: guepard

Further reading

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: on‧ça

Etymology 1

From Latin uncia (“unit, 1⁄12 pound”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”). As an English unit, a semantic loan of English ounce. Cognate with Galician and Spanish onza, Catalan unça, French once, and English ounce and inch.

Noun

onça f (plural onças)

  1. English or American ounce, a unit of mass equal to 28.35 g
  2. (historical) onça, Portuguese ounce, a traditional unit of mass, usually equivalent to 28.7 g
  3. (historical) onça, ounce, a former gold coin weighing one Portuguese ounce
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Etymology 2

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

Uma onça (jaguar).
Uma onça (leopard).

Noun

onça f (plural onças)

  1. (Brazil) jaguar (Panthera onca, a feline of Latin America)
    Synonyms: jaguar, onça-pintada
  2. (Angola) leopard (Panthera pardus, a feline of Africa and Asia)
    Synonyms: pantera, leopardo
  3. (less commonly) cougar (Puma concolor, a pan-American feline)
    Synonyms: onça-parda, suçuarana, leão-baio, leão-da-montanha
  4. (Brazil, slang) a R$50 bill, which bears the image of a jaguar
    Coordinate terms: see Thesaurus:dinheiro
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