onus
英 ['əʊnəs]
美['onəs]
- n. 责任，义务；负担
- n. (Onus)人名；(英)奥纳斯
助记提示
1. on + us => 责任和负担落到了我们身上。在我们身上有责任和义务。
2. onus => oner-.
2. onus => oner-.
中文词源
onus 责任，职责
来自拉丁语onus,责任，重担，来自PIE*en,担子，可能来自PIE*an,在上面，词源同on.
英文词源
- onus (n.)
- 1640s, from Latin onus "load, burden," figuratively "tax, expense; trouble, difficulty," from PIE *en-es- "burden" (source of Sanskrit anah "cart, wagon"). Hence legal Latin onus probandi (1722), literally "burden of proving."