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Attested 1650, from Latin uncia (“a twelfth part, ounce, inch”).

uncial (comparative more uncial, superlative most uncial)

1. (rare) Of or relating to an ounce, or an inch, especially to letters printed an inch high.

Attested 1712, from Late Latin unciales (“uncials”), unciales litterae (“uncial letters”) (Jerome), plural of uncialis (“pertaining to one twelfth part, ounce, or inch”), from uncia (“one twelfth part, ounce, inch”). The literal meaning is unclear: some references indicate "inch-high letters", but see “Uncial script” in Wikipedia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʌn.si.əl/,^[1] /ˈʌn.ʃi.əl/, /ˈʌn.ʃəl/^[1][2]
• Hyphenation: un‧ci‧al, un‧cial

uncial (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a majuscule style of writing with unjoined, rounded letters, originally used in the 4th–9th centuries.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     This, also written in black letter, we found inscribed on a second parchment that was in the coffer, apparently somewhat older in date than that on which was inscribed the mediæval Latin translation of the uncial Greek of which I shall speak presently.

uncial (plural uncials)

1. A style of writing using uncial letters.
2. A letter in this style.
3. A manuscript in this style.

• semi-uncial, half-uncial

• uncia
• ounce
• inch

• Alcuin, Lucian, Lucina

Borrowed from Latin uncialis.

uncial m or n (feminine singular uncială, masculine plural unciali, feminine and neuter plural unciale)

1. uncial

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /unˈθjal/ [ũn̟ˈθjal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /unˈsjal/ [ũnˈsjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: un‧cial

uncial m or f (masculine and feminine plural unciales)

1. uncial

uncial f (plural unciales)

1. uncial

• “uncial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014