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unca

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See also: unça

English

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Noun

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unca (plural not attested)

  1. (dialect) Uncle (especially as a term of address).
    • 1991, Don Rosa, “Return to Xanadu”, in Uncle Scrooge, volumes 261-262, page 5:
      That's from the poem of the legend of Kubla Kahn's palace in the lost valley of Xanadu! Alph was the river in the legend! Unca Scrooge, this is the road to Xanadu!

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Latin

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Adjective

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unca

  1. inflection of uncus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

Adjective

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uncā

  1. ablative feminine singular of uncus

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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From English ounce, from Latin uncia (twelfth part).

Noun

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ȗnca f (Cyrillic spelling у̑нца)

  1. ounce

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Slovak

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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unca f (relational adjective uncový)

  1. ounce

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Further reading

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  • unca”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025