onerous
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onerous
- /ˈɒnəɹəs/ UK
- /ˈəʊnəɹəs/ UK
- /ˈɑnəɹəs/ US
- /ˈoʊnəɹəs/ US
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Proto-Indo-European *h₃en(H)-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃én(H)os
Proto-Italic *onos
Latin onus
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos?
Old Latin -ōssus
Latin -ōsus
Latin onerosuslbor.
Old French onereus
Middle French onereuxbor.
Middle English onerous
English onerous
Inherited from Middle English onerous, borrowed from Middle French onereux, from Old French onereus, a learned borrowing from Latin onerosus, from onus (“burden”) + -ōsus. Compare exonerate.
adjective more onerous · most onerous
- Imposing or constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort; burdensome. That all this might not be too onerous on the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways of rendering himself both useful and agreeable.
