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uncia
Latin · ancient
"a twelfth part"
a twelfth part, the root of both the ounce and the inch
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unce
Old French · medieval
"a small unit of weight"
carried into French as a small unit of weight
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ounce
English · 1300s
"a small unit of weight, a sixteenth of a pound"
settled as the English word for a small unit of weight
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