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The corpus record — Latin

unciarius

unciarius · adj

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Where it lives

  • Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 3 · 2.27/10k
  • Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
  • Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
  • Ab urbe condita 3 · 0.06/10k
  • Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

uncĭārĭus — Lewis & Short

uncĭārĭus, a, um, adj.id.,

I of or belonging to a twelfth part, containing a twelfth: heres, i. e. who inherits a twelfth part, Dig. 30, 1, 34 fin.: fenus, i. e. one twelfth of the principal was returned annually as interest, or 8 1/3 per cent. (cf. Rein, Privatr. 630 sqq.; Marquardt, Röm. Alterth. 3, 2, 48); Tac. A. 6, 16; Liv. 7, 16, 1; 7, 27, 3: lex, i. e. de fenore unciario, Fest. p. 375: unciariā stipe collatā, i. e. of an as (weighing one ounce), from each person, Plin. 34, 5, 11, § 21: vitis, bearing grapes that weigh an ounce, Col. 3, 2, 2; cf. Isid. Orig. 17, 5, 17

In the wild

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.