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Is onus a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word onus is a Scrabble US word. The word onus is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word onus is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

O1N1U1S1

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4-letter words (2 found)

NOUS,ONUS,

3-letter words (8 found)

NOS,NUS,ONS,OUS,SON,SOU,SUN,UNS,

2-letter words (8 found)

NO,NU,ON,OS,OU,SO,UN,US,

You can make 18 words from onus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of onus

onus nous ouns uons nuos unos onsu nosu osnu sonu nsou snou ousn uosn osun soun uson suon nuso unso nsuo snuo usno suno

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Definitions and meaning of onus

onus

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin onus (literally “burden”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈəʊnəs/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈoʊnəs/
  • Rhymes: -əʊnəs

Noun

onus (countable and uncountable, plural onuses or onera)

  1. A legal obligation.
  2. (law) Burden of proof, onus probandi.
  3. Stigma.
  4. Blame.
  5. Responsibility; burden.

Translations

Anagrams

  • Onsu, Osun, Suon, UNOS, Unos, nous, ouns

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin onus (“burden”).

Pronunciation

Noun

onus m (plural onussen or onera, diminutive onusje n)

  1. burden

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *onos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃énh₂os, from the root *h₃enh₂-. Cognate with Sanskrit अनस् (ánas, “heavy cart; mother; birth; offspring”). See Ancient Greek ὄνομαι (ónomai, “impugn, quarrel with”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈo.nus/, [ˈɔnʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈo.nus/, [ˈɔːnus]

Noun

onus n (genitive oneris); third declension

  1. burden, load
    Synonyms: mōlēs, pondus, gravitās
  2. cargo, freight
  3. (figuratively) tax, tax burden

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

  • onerārius
  • onerō
  • onerōsus
  • onustus
  • onus probandī
  • gravis onus

Descendants

  • → Dutch: onus (learned)
  • → English: onus (learned)
  • → German: Onus (learned)
  • Italian: onere
  • Sicilian: òniri
  • Portuguese: ónus

References

  • “onus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “onus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • onus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • onus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Clackson, James, Indo-European Word Formation: Proceedings from the International Conference, 2002

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