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onus

one

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Where it lives

Medicamina faciei femineae 1 · 16.31/10k
Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 9 · 10.66/10k
De Architectura 44 · 7.63/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Remedia Amoris 3 · 5.72/10k
De Fide Catholica 1 · 5.19/10k
Amores 8 · 5.12/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 5.05/10k
de Bello Gothico 2 · 4.96/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 2 · 4.91/10k

Densest 12 of 176 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. Onus — de Vaan

Onus 'one' [adj. num. o] (Lex XII+, Elog.Scip. oino [acc.sg.m.], SCBac. oiniuorsei L universT\ gen. umus, dat ϋηϊ\ η. iinum) Derivatives: una [adv.] "together, at the same time' (PL+), ullus 'any' (PL+), nullus 'not any, no' (Andr.+), nonnullus 4a little, a few' (P1.+), unicus 'sole, unique5 (PL+), unose [adv.] 'all together5 (Pac), uncia 4one twelfth5 (P1.+), unciatim 4in amounts of one twelfth' (Ter.+), deunx, … — [de Vaan, s.v. Onus, p. 656]

2. ŏnus — Lewis & Short

ŏnus (in good MSS. also wr. hŏnus), ĕris, n.etym. dub.; cf. Sanscr. anas, a wagon for freight,

I a load, burden (cf. pondus).

I Lit.

A In gen.: oneris maximi pondus, Vitr. 10, 8: onus sustinere, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 68: cum gravius dorso subiit onus (asellus), Hor S. 1, 9, 20: tanti oneris turris, Caes. B. G. 2, 30: ad minimum redigi onus, Ov M. 14, 149.—

B In partic.

1 Of goods, baggage, etc., a load, lading, freight, cargo: insula Delos, quo omnes undique cum mercibus atque oneribus commeabant, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 18, 55: onera afferuntur, Plin. 6, 23, 26, § 104: (naves) ad onera et ad multitudinem jumentorum transportandam paulo latiores, Caes. B. G. 5, 1, 2: jumentis onera deponere, loads, packs, id. B. C. 1, 80.—

2 Poet., the burden of the womb, the fœtus, embryo: gravidi ventris, Ov. Am. 2, 13, 1; id. F. 2, 452; id. H. 4, 58; Phaedr. 1, 18, 5. —

3 The excrements: ciborum onera reddere, Plin. 8, 27, 41, § 97: duri ventris solvere, Mart. 13, 29, 2.—

II Trop

A A burden, in respect of property, i. e. a tax or an expense (usually in the plur.): municipium maximis oneribus pressum, Cic. Fam. 13, 7, 2: haec onera in dites a pauperibus inclinata, Liv. 1, 43: patria, Suet. Calig. 42: haerere in explicandis oneribus, id. Dom. 12 init.: oneribus novis turbantur provinciae, Tac. A. 4, 6.—

B A load, burden, weight, charge, trouble, difficulty of any kind (so most freq. in Cic.; cf. molestia): magni sunt oneris; quicquid imponas, vehunt, capable of bearing great burdens, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 95: quae (senectus) plerisque senibus sic odiosa est, ut onus se Aetnā gravius dicant sustinere, Cic. Sen. 2, 4: onus atque munus magnum, id. de Or. 1, 25, 116: hoc onus si vos adlevabitis, id. Rosc. Am. 4, 10: officii, id. ib.: probandi, the burden of proof, obligation to prove, Dig. 31, 1, 22; Cic. Rep. 1, 23, 37: oneri esse, to be a burden, Liv. 23, 43; Vulg. 2 Reg. 15, 33: neque eram nescius, quantis oneribus premerere susceptarum rerum, Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 2: epici carminis onera lyrā sustinere, Quint. 10, 1, 62.—

C (Eccl. Lat.) The burden of a prophecy, the woes predicted against any one: Babylonis, Vulg. Isa. 13, 1: Tyri, id. ib. 23, 1.—With subj.gen.: Domini, Vulg. Jer. 23, 33: verbi Domini, id. Zach. 12, 1.

In the wild

oneris Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9.II.p1
onere Seneca, De Beneficiis 5.5.2
onera Cicero, De Inventione 2.153.p2
oneris Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.879
onus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 6.1.45
oneri Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.1.56.3

6 of 704 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. Onus (scan p. 656; entry #1882). Root candidates: *oinlo-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. onus (scan p. 486; entry #7859).

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