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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sescuncia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /seˈskun.t͡ʃa/
- Rhymes: -untʃa
- Hyphenation: se‧scùn‧cia
Noun
sescuncia f (plural sescunce)
- one and a half unciae
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From sēsqui- + ū̆ncia.
Pronunciation
Noun
sēscū̆ncia f (genitive sēscū̆nciae); first declension
- One and a half unciae.
- One eighth (of a whole)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “sescuncia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sescuncia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.