onça

== English == === Alternative forms === onca === Etymology === From Portuguese onça, from Latin uncia (“unit, 1⁄12 pound”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”). Doublet of ounce, inch, onza, oka, ouguiya, awqiyyah, and uncia === Noun === onça (plural onças) (historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, usually equivalent to 28.7 g. ==== Coordinate terms ==== (unit of mass): grao (1⁄576 onça), vintem (1⁄256 onça), quilate (1⁄144 onça), escropulo (1⁄24 onça), oitava (1⁄8 onça), quarta (4 onças), marco (8 onças), libra (usually 12 onças), arratel (16 onças) == Catalan == === Etymology === From earlier leonça by misdivision, and this from Old French leonce or Italian lonza. Cognate with English ounce (“snow leopard”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔn.sə] IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈon.sa] === Noun === onça f (plural onces) a name applied to various large felids, such as the cheetah or the jaguar Synonym: guepard === Further reading === “onça”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 == Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -õsɐ Hyphenation: on‧ça === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese onça, 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) English or American ounce, a unit of mass equal to 28.35 g (historical) onça, Portuguese ounce, a traditional unit of mass, usually equivalent to 28.7 g (historical) onça, ounce, a former gold coin weighing one Portuguese ounce ===== Coordinate terms ===== (English unit of mass): libra (16 onças) (Portuguese unit of mass): grão (1⁄576 onça), vintém (1⁄256 onça), quilate (1⁄144 onça), escrópulo (1⁄24 onça), oitava (1⁄8 onça), quarta (4 onças), marco (8 onças), libra (usually 12 onças), arrátel (16 onças) === 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”). Compare Catalan onça, French once. Doublet of lince. ==== Noun ==== onça f (plural onças) (Brazil) jaguar (Panthera onca, a feline of Latin America) Synonyms: jaguar, onça-pintada (Angola) leopard (Panthera pardus, a feline of Africa and Asia) Synonyms: pantera, leopardo (uncommon) cougar (Puma concolor, a pan-American feline) Synonyms: see Thesaurus:puma (Brazil, slang) a R$50 bill, which bears the image of a jaguar Coordinate terms: see Thesaurus:dinheiro ===== Coordinate terms ===== ===== Derived terms ===== === Further reading === “onça”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “onça”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026 “onça”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026 “onça”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 “onça”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN