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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."
