The story
- Latin · borrowed fromsemuncia“half-ounce”
- English todaysemuncia
From Latin semuncia (“half-ounce”). By surface analysis, sem- + uncia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
semuncia
Today it means: A bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at one twenty-fourth of an as. Full definition →
Latin semuncia