The corpus record — Latin

unciatim

unciatim · adv

by twelfths

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Where it lives

Phormio 1 · 0.92/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

uncĭātim — Lewis & Short

uncĭātim, adv.id.,

I by twelfths, by ounces. *

I Lit.: (axungia) datur et phthisicis unciatim, cum vini veteris hemina decocta, donec tres unciae e toto restent, Plin. 28, 9, 37, § 139.—*

II Transf., by a little at a time, little by little: quod ille unciatim vix de demenso suo ... comparsit miser, Ter. Phorm. 1, 1, 9.

In the wild

unciatim Terence, Phormio 1.1
unciatim Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.9.p5

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.