onça
Portuguese
Noun
onça f (plural onças)
Etymology 2
From Italian lonza, from Vulgar Latin *luncea, from Latin lynx, from Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx), from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“to shine, bright, to see”).
Noun
onça f (plural onças)
- jaguar (Panthera onca, a feline of the Americas)
- (Angola) leopard (Panthera pardus, a feline of Africa and Asia)
Synonyms
- (jaguar): jaguar, onça-pintada
- (leopard): pantera, leopardo
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