different between guilt vs onus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt
• Homophone: gilt

Etymology 1

From Middle English gilt, gult, from Old English gylt (“guilt, sin, offense, crime, fault”), of obscure origin. Perhaps connected with Old English ?ieldan (“to yield, pay, pay for, reward, requite, render, worship, serve, sacrifice to, punish”), whence yield.

Noun

guilt (usually uncountable, plural guilts)

1. Responsibility for wrongdoing.

   Antonym: innocence

2. (law) The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings.

   Antonym: innocence

3. The regret of having done wrong.

   Synonym: remorse

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• regret

Etymology 2

From Middle English gilten, gylten, from Old English gyltan (“to commit sin, be guilty”), from gylt (“guilt, sin, offense, crime, fault”).

Verb

guilt (third-person singular simple present guilts, present participle guilting, simple past and past participle guilted)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To commit offenses; act criminally.
2. (transitive) To cause someone to feel guilt, particularly in order to influence their behaviour.

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin onus (“burden”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???n?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?o?n?s/
• Rhymes: -??n?s

Noun

onus (countable and uncountable, plural onuses or onera)

1. A legal obligation.

2. (uncountable) 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 oni, diminutive onusje n)

1. burden

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h?énh?os from *h?enh?-. Cognate to Sanskrit ???? (ánas, “heavy cart; mother; birth; offspring”). See Ancient Greek ?????? (ónomai, “impugn, quarrel with”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?o.nus/, [??n?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?o.nus/, [???nus]

Noun

onus n (genitive oneris); third declension

1. burden, load
2. cargo, freight
3. (figuratively) tax, tax burden

Declension

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

Derived terms

• oner?
• onustus
• onus proband?

Descendants

• Dutch: onus
• English: onus
• Italian: onere
• 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, 1883–1887)
• onus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Clackson, James, Indo-European Word Formation: Proceedings from the International Conference, 2002