unca
See also: unça
English
Noun
unca (plural not attested)
- (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
- inflection of uncus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural
Adjective
uncā
- ablative feminine singular of uncus
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from English ounce, from Latin uncia (“twelfth part”).
Noun
ȗnca f (Cyrillic spelling у̑нца)
Declension
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)
Declension
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | unca | unce |
genitive | unce | uncí |
dative | unci | unciam |
accusative | uncu | unce |
locative | unci | unciach |
instrumental | uncou | uncami |
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