The corpus record — Latin

onerosus

onerosus · adj

burdensome

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Where it lives

De Monogamia 5 · 7.16/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
Ex Ponto 2 · 0.96/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
De Anima 2 · 0.84/10k
Letters 5 · 0.77/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.65/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ŏnĕrōsus — Lewis & Short

ŏnĕrōsus, a, um, adj.onus,

I burdensome, heavy, oppressive (poet. and in postAug. prose; syn.: gravis, difficilis).

I Lit.: praeda, Verg. A. 9, 384.—Of food that is difficult of digestion and causes oppression: cibus etiam valentibus onerosus, Plin. 23, 7, 62, § 115: (ervum) capiti et stomacho onerosum, id. 22, 25, 73, § 153.— Comp.: aër est onerosior igni, Ov. M. 1, 53. —

II Trop., burdensome, onerous, irksome: onerosior altera sors est, Ov. M. 9, 675: donatio, Plin. Ep. 2, 4, 3: quam sit onerosum succedere bono principi, id. Pan. 44, 7: consolatores, Vulg. Job, 16, 2.—Hence, adv.: ŏnĕrōsē, odiously (post-class.), Paul. Nol. Ep. 11.—Comp.: onerosius, Cassiod. Anim. 11.

In the wild

onerosa Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 2.5.7
onerosior Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.53
onerosum Tacitus, Historiae 1.20
onerosaque Martial, Epigrammata 9.55.3
onerosus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.7.p1
onerosa Ovid, Amores 3.9.68

6 of 49 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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