unca

See also: unça

English

Noun

unca (plural not attested)

  1. (dialect) Uncle (especially as a term of address).
    • 1991, Don Rosa, “Return to Xanadu”, in Uncle Scrooge, volumes 261-262, page 5:
      That's from the poem of the legend of Kubla Kahn's palace in the lost valley of Xanadu! Alph was the river in the legend! Unca Scrooge, this is the road to Xanadu!

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

unca

  1. inflection of uncus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

Adjective

uncā

  1. ablative feminine singular of uncus

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English ounce, from Latin uncia (twelfth part).

Noun

ȗnca f (Cyrillic spelling у̑нца)

  1. ounce

Declension

Declension of unca
singular plural
nominative unca unce
genitive unce unca / unci
dative unci uncama
accusative uncu unce
vocative unco unce
locative unci uncama
instrumental uncom uncama

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈunt͡sa]

Noun

unca f (relational adjective uncový)

  1. ounce

Declension

Declension of unca
(pattern ulica)
singularplural
nominativeuncaunce
genitiveunceuncí
dativeunciunciam
accusativeuncuunce
locativeunciunciach
instrumentaluncouuncami

Further reading

  • unca”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025