unic

See also: únic

English

Adjective

unic (not comparable)

1. (now nonstandard) Obsolete form of unique.
   • 1648, Jean d'. Espagne, Jean d' Espagne, Popular errors, in generall poynts concerning the knowledge of religion, Tho. Whittaker, page 5:

     Now as the inclinations are different, the truth which is unick in it ſelf appeares in divers forms, according to the quality of the ſpirits, which conceives it, like the Æthiopians repreſenting the uglineſſe of the devill, have a cuſtome contrary to other people, they paint him white; ſo after this manner the diverſity of humours produces diverſity of conceptions and difference of opinions upon the ſame ſubject.

   • 1878, Public Opinion: A Weekly Review of Current Thought and Activity, Volume 64, G. Cole (etc.), page 495:

     To these questions M. Paul Jablochkoff answers as follows, in the most categorical manner, that with any electric machine whatever, by means of his new apparatus, ‘the amplifier,’ he not only distributes through a single conductor to several points the current of a unic source of electricity, but also increases it.

   • 1930, Proceedings - Pacific Science Congress: Zoology, Volume 4, Part 3, page 131:

     Though it is interesting that at a distance of about 10 hours from Batavia there exists an absolutely isolated people, which has been visited by very few (perhaps 15) Europeans, it is only because of their mentality that the Badoejs are a unic ethnological phenomenon.

   • 2000, Biodiversity and Dynamics of Ecosystems in North Eurasia: Diversity of the flora and vegetation of North Eurasia, IC & G, page 226:

     Due to its biological characters, multipurpose use seabuckthorn is a unic bushy-tree plant.

   • 2003, Ian Chivers, Essential C# Fast, Springer, page 44:

     In order to do this, we would need to obtain a greater understanding of the set of unic Lyapunov functions corresponding to a given stable LTI system, and then investigate the possibility of obtaining results similar to Theorem 1 for unic Lyapunov functions.

References

• “unique”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Ladin

Alternative forms

• unich

Adjective

unic m (feminine singular unica, masculine plural unic, feminine plural uniches)

1. unique
2. single

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French unique, Latin unicus. By surface analysis, unu +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈu.nik], [uˈnik]

Adjective

unic m or n (feminine singular unică, masculine plural unici, feminine/neuter plural unice)

1. unique

   un drum cu sens unic

   a one-way road

Declension

Declension of unic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	unic		unică	unici	unice
	definite	unicul		unica	unicii	unicele
genitive- dative	indefinite	unic		unice	unici	unice
	definite	unicului		unicei	unicilor	unicelor

Romansh

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Latin ūnicus.

Adjective

unic m (feminine singular unica, masculine plural unics, feminine plural unicas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) single

Synonyms

• (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) sulet
• (Sutsilvan) sul