The corpus record — Latin

onustus

onustus · adj

loaded

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Aulularia 4 · 5.79/10k
Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k
Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Metamorphoses 15 · 2.81/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 4 · 2.76/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
De Bello Africo 3 · 2.31/10k
Maximini Duo 1 · 1.84/10k

Densest 12 of 63 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ŏnustus — Lewis & Short

ŏnustus (hŏnust-), a, um, adj.onus,

I loaded, laden, burdened, freighted, etc. (class.).

I Lit.: asellus onustus auro, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 12 (dub.): naves onustae frumento, id. Off. 3, 12: currus quinque liberis, Tac. A. 2, 41: magna vis camelorum onusta frumenti, id. ib. 15, 12.—

B Transf.

1 Filled, full, abounding in: ager praedā onustus, Sall. J. 87, 1: pharetrae telis, Tac. A. 12, 13.—

(b) With gen.: auri, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 10.—

2 Full, satisfied with food (anteclass.): quia sum onusta mei ex sententiā, Plaut. Cist. 1, 2, 7; id. Merc. 4, 4, 6: corpus, overloaded, Lucr. 3, 113.—

II Trop., loaded, burdened (ante-class.): omnes exegit foras onustos fustibus, Plaut. Aul. 3, 1, 7: corpus, burdened, weighed down with years, id. Men. 5, 2, 5: onustum pectus porto laetitiā lubentiāque, id. Stich. 2, 1, 3: fidicina dolis astutiisque, full of, id. Ep. 3, 2, 39: corpus hesternis vitiis, Hor. S. 2, 2, 77.— Sup.: carri onustissimi, Jul. Val. Res Gest. Alex. 2, 26, 14.

In the wild

onustam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.15.p2
onustas Tacitus, Annales 12.p13
onustas Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 p31
onustos Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 29 p27
onusto Statius, Thebais 4.571
onustas Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.25.27.3

6 of 145 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. onustus (scan p. 67; entry #774).

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