Etymology
From onus (“load, burden”).
Verb
onerō (present infinitive onerāre, perfect active onerāvī, supine onerātum); first conjugation
- to burden, lade, load, heap up anything in anything
- Synonyms: accumulō, cumulō, exstruō, struō, inaedificō
- (figuratively) to overwhelm, weary, oppress
- (figuratively) to make more burdensome, aggravate
- Synonyms: aggravō, gravō, ingravō
- (poetic) to cover
Conjugation
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References
- “onero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “onero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- onero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to heap abuse on some one: maledictis aliquem onerare, lacerare