onus

== English == === Alternative forms === oweness (eggcorn) === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin onus (literally “burden”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈəʊnəs/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈoʊnəs/ Rhymes: -əʊnəs === Noun === onus (countable and uncountable, plural onuses or onera) A legal obligation. (law) Burden of proof, onus probandi. Stigma. Blame. Responsibility; burden. ==== Collocations ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Onsu, Osun, Suon, UNOS, Unos, nous, ouns == Dutch == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin onus (“burden”). === Pronunciation === === Noun === onus m (plural onussen or onera, diminutive onusje n) burden == Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *onos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃énh₂os, from the root *h₃enh₂-. Cognate with Sanskrit अनस् (ánas, “heavy cart; mother; birth; offspring”). See Ancient Greek ὄνομαι (ónomai, “impugn, quarrel with”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɔ.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔː.nus] === Noun === onus n (genitive oneris); third declension burden, load Synonyms: mōlēs, pondus, gravitās cargo, freight (figuratively) tax, tax burden ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Dutch: onus (learned) → English: onus (learned) → German: Onus (learned) Italian: onere Sicilian: òniri Portuguese: ónus === References === “onus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “onus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "onus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “onus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Clackson, James, Indo-European Word Formation: Proceedings from the International Conference, 2002