βάρος [1 verse](noun sg neut acc) "The burden" is baros, which means "weight," "heaviness," "burden," and, in a positive sense, "abundance."   - "Burden" is from an adjective that means "weight," "heaviness," "burden," and, in a positive sense, "abundance." Here, it has the sense of the greater part, what the Greeks would call "the weight" of something.