uncial

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
uncial /ˈʌnsɪəl, -ʃ(ə)l/

▶adjective

• 1 denoting or written in a majuscule script with rounded separated letters which is found in European manuscripts of the 4th–8th centuries and from which modern capital letters are derived.

• 2 rare relating to an inch or an ounce.

▶noun an uncial letter, script, or manuscript.

– origin C17: from L. uncialis, from uncia ‘inch’ (in sense 1 of the adjective from unciales litterae ‘uncial letters’).