onça

• onca

From Portuguese onça, from Latin uncia (“unit, ¹⁄₁₂ pound”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”). Doublet of ounce, inch, onza, oka, ouguiya, awqiyyah, and uncia

onça (plural onças)

1. (historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, usually equivalent to 28.7 g.

• (unit of mass): grao (¹⁄₅₇₆ onça), vintem (¹⁄₂₅₆ onça), quilate (¹⁄₁₄₄ onça), escropulo (¹⁄₂₄ onça), oitava (¹⁄₈ onça), quarta (4 onças), marco (8 onças), libra (usually 12 onças), arratel (16 onças)

From earlier leonça by misdivision, and this from Old French leonce or Italian lonza. Cognate with English ounce (“snow leopard”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔn.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈon.sa]

onça f (plural onces)

1. a name applied to various large felids, such as the cheetah or the jaguar

   Synonym: guepard

• “onça”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• Hyphenation: on‧ça

From Latin uncia (“unit, ¹⁄₁₂ pound”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”). As an English unit, a semantic loan of English ounce. Cognate with Galician and Spanish onza, Catalan unça, French once, and English ounce and inch.

onça f (plural onças)

1. English or American ounce, a unit of mass equal to 28.35 g
2. (historical) onça, Portuguese ounce, a traditional unit of mass, usually equivalent to 28.7 g
3. (historical) onça, ounce, a former gold coin weighing one Portuguese ounce

• (English unit of mass): libra (16 onças)
• (Portuguese unit of mass): grão (¹⁄₅₇₆ onça), vintém (¹⁄₂₅₆ onça), quilate (¹⁄₁₄₄ onça), escrópulo (¹⁄₂₄ onça), oitava (¹⁄₈ onça), quarta (4 onças), marco (8 onças), libra (usually 12 onças), arrátel (16 onças)

From Italian lonza ("leopard" or "lynx"), from Vulgar Latin *luncea, from Latin lynx, from Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx), from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“to shine, bright, to see”). Compare Catalan onça, French once. Doublet of lince.

onça f (plural onças)

1. (Brazil) jaguar (Panthera onca, a feline of Latin America)

   Synonyms: jaguar, onça-pintada

2. (Angola) leopard (Panthera pardus, a feline of Africa and Asia)

   Synonyms: pantera, leopardo

3. (less commonly) cougar (Puma concolor, a pan-American feline)

   Synonyms: onça-parda, suçuarana, leão-baio, leão-da-montanha

4. (Brazil, slang) a R$50 bill, which bears the image of a jaguar

   Coordinate terms: see Thesaurus:dinheiro

• amigo da onça
• cutucar a onça com vara curta