The corpus record — Latin

uncia

uncia · f

the twelfth part

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Medicamina faciei femineae 2 · 32.63/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 2 · 6.47/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
De Re Coquinaria 5 · 3.19/10k
Divus Aurelianus 2 · 2.56/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
De Medicina 7 · 0.68/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 1 · 0.59/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. uncĭa — Lewis & Short

uncĭa, ae, f., = ou)gki/a (Siculian and Etruscan; v. Müller, Etrusk. 1, p. 309 sq.) [akin to unus, unicus, unio; Gr. oi)no/s],

I the twelfth part of any thing, a twelfth.

I Lit.

1 Of inheritances: mortuus Babullius. Caesar, opinor, ex unciā, etsi nihil adhuc: sed Lepta ex triente, Cic. Att. 13, 48, 1: heres, Sen. Contr. 4, 28 med.; Cod. Just. 5, 27, 2.—Of a debt: non erit uncia tota, Mart. 9, 3, 5.—

2 To denote a rate of interest, one twelfth per cent. a month, i. e. reckoning by the year, one per cent., Dig. 26, 7, 47, § 4.—

3 As a weight, the twelfth part of a pound (as or libra), an ounce, Rhemn. Fan. Pond. 28; Plaut. Men. 3, 3, 3: uncia aloës, Plin. 20, 13, 51, § 140: Falerni, Mart. 1, 107, 3.—

4 As a measure of land, one twelfth of a jugerum, Col. 5, 1, 10.—

5 As a measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, an inch, Front. Aquaed. 24; Plin. 6, 34, 39, § 214.—

II Transf., a trifle, bit, atom: neque piscium ullam unciam hodie Pondo cepi, Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 8; Juv. 11, 131: nulla de nostro nobis uncia venit apro, Mart. 9, 49, 12.

2. uncia — Walde–Hofmann

uncia, -ae f. „ein Teil eines As oder zwólfteiligen Ganzen, Unze“ (seit Plaut., rom., [daran gr. o0yxıa, obriaaguóc]). Abltgg. «nciális, -e „von einer Unze* (Pin. Hier. [= „große Buchstabenschrift* nach Schubart Griech. Palaeographie, München 1925 p. 2!]; unciärsus, -a, -um ‚vom zwölften“ [bes. fenus] seit XII tab. 8,18 und Liv); wneidtim „unzenweise“ (seit Ter.); unciola, -ae f. „kleine Unze* (Iuv. 1,40). Komp.: … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. uncia, p. 1723]

In the wild

uncia Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 1.13
unciam Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 4.149
uncia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.17.p1
unciam Celsus, De Medicina 5.18.p11
unciae Celsus, De Medicina 6.6.p18
uncia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.22.p13

6 of 57 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. uncia (scan p. 770; entry #12855).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. uncia (scan pp. 1723-1724; entry #3308).

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