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Italian
Etymology
From Latin onustus (“burdened”, “loaded”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃enh₂ostos, from the root *h₃enh₂- (“to onerate, charge”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oˈnu.sto/
- Rhymes: -usto
- Hyphenation: o‧nù‧sto
Adjective
onusto (feminine onusta, masculine plural onusti, feminine plural onuste) (literary)
- loaded, heavy
- pressured
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Latin
Adjective
onustō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of onustus
References
- “onusto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- onusto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Adjective
onusto (feminine onusta, masculine plural onustos, feminine plural onustas)
- loaded, heavy
- Synonym: cargado
- laden, burdened
- pressured
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