Definitions for uncia

uncia un·ci·a

Spelling: [uhn-shee-uh]
IPA: /ˈʌn ʃi ə/

Uncia is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in uncia (acinu).

Definitions for uncia

noun

  1. a bronze coin of ancient Rome, the 12th part of an as.
  2. (in prescriptions) an ounce of weight or volume.

Origin of uncia

1685-95; Latin: a twelfth part, akin to ūnus one; cf. inch1

Examples for uncia

Of each bes of silver one sicilicus is consumed, or occasionally when very impure, three drachmae or half an uncia.

Another cement is made of a bes of brick dust, a third of rock salt, an uncia of saltpetre, and half an uncia of refined salt.

The twelth part of an acre was called uncia and half a foot, Semis, &c.

And likewise they add two centumpondia of poor silver-lead, in each of which there is an uncia and a drachma of silver.

This is the Felis uncia, allied to the panther and the cheetah.

Such liquation cakes should weigh up to three centumpondia, in each of which there is half an uncia of silver.

The uncia into four sicilici, the sicilicus into thirty-six siliquae.

Word Value for uncia
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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