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See also: Sue, sué, su'e, sü, and suë

Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping of English Suena.

Symbol

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sue

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Suena.

See also

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  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Suena terms

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:sueWikipedia

Etymology

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From Middle English seuen, sewen, siwen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suer, siwer et al. and Old French sivre (“to follow after”) (modern French suivre), from Vulgar Latin *sequere (“to follow”), from Latin sequi. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Doublet of segue. Related to suit.

Pronunciation

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  • (Received Pronunciation)
    • (yod-dropping) IPA(key): /suː/
    • (yod-coalescence) IPA(key): /ʃuː/
    • (non-yod-dropping, non-yod-coalescence, conservative) IPA(key): /sjuː/
  • (chiefly Wales) IPA(key): /sɪu̯/
  • Audio (US); [sɨu̯]:(file)
  • Rhymes: -uː
  • Homophones: Sioux, sou, Su, Sue

Verb

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sue (third-person singular simple present sues, present participle suing, simple past and past participle sued)

  1. (transitive) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal (civil) action. Synonym: implead sue someone for selling a faulty product I plan to sue you for everything you have.
    • 1897, Warren Bert Kimberly, “W. Horgan”, in History of West Australia:He was sued by the late Geo. Walpole Leake for slander, and after two trials, occupying eight days, he was mulcted in heavy damages and costs.
  2. (ambitransitive) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead. The king of Bimsa sued for peace after Nynal's armies overran his territory; he knew any further resistance would only harm the common people.
  3. (transitive, falconry, of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.).
  4. (transitive, nautical) To leave high and dry on shore.[1] to sue a ship
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To court.
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To follow.
    • 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum iv”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XIII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’And the old knight said to the young knight, 'Sir, follow me'.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd, / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.

Quotations

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  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sue.

Derived terms

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  • sue for peace
  • sue me
  • sue one's livery
  • sue out
[edit] English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sekʷ- (3 c, 0 e)

Translations

[edit] to file a legal action — see also prosecute,‎ litigate
  • Albanian: padit (sq)
  • Arabic: قَاضَى (qāḍā)
  • Armenian: please add this translation if you can
  • Azerbaijani: məhkəməyə vermək
  • Basque: please add this translation if you can
  • Bulgarian: завеждам дело (zaveždam delo)
  • Burmese: တရားစွဲ (my) (ta.ra:cwai:)
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 起訴 / 起诉 (zh) (qǐsù)
  • Czech: žalovat (cs)
  • Danish: lægge sag an, sagsøge, stævne (da)
  • Dutch: aanklagen (nl)
  • Esperanto: persekuti
  • Faroese: saksøkja, lógsøkja
  • Finnish: nostaa kanne, haastaa oikeuteen
  • French: poursuivre en justice, intenter un procès à
  • Georgian: ჩივილი (čivili), უჩივლა pf (učivla)
  • German: verklagen (de), klagen (de)
  • Greek: μηνύω (el) (minýo)
  • Hebrew: תבע (he) (tavá)
  • Hungarian: beperel (hu), perel (hu), perbe fog
  • Icelandic: lögsækja
  • Indonesian: menuntut (id)
  • Irish: agair
  • Italian: fare causa, citare in giudizio
  • Japanese: 訴える (ja) (うったえる, uttaeru)
  • Khmer: ប្ដឹង (km) (pdəng), ផ្ដៀង (km) (phdiəng)
  • Korean: 고소하다 (ko) (gosohada)
  • Ladin: dé sëura
  • Lao: ຟ້ອງ (fǭng)
  • Latin: lītigō, lītem inferō
  • Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
  • Norwegian: Bokmål: saksøke Nynorsk: saksøkja, saksøkje, saksøka, saksøke
  • Polish: pozywać (pl) impf, pozwać (pl) pf
  • Portuguese: processar (pt), demandar (pt)
  • Romanian: da în judecată
  • Russian: пресле́довать в суде́бном поря́дке impf (preslédovatʹ v sudébnom porjádke), подава́ть в суд impf (podavátʹ v sud), предъявля́ть иск impf (predʺjavljátʹ isk), суди́ться (ru) impf (sudítʹsja) (с - with)
  • Scottish Gaelic: tagair
  • Slovene: tožiti impf
  • Spanish: demandar (es), querellarse (es), pleitear (es)
  • Swedish: stämma (sv), lagföra (sv)
  • Tagalog: hablahin, maghabla, idemanda, magdemanda
  • Thai: ฟ้อง (th) (fɔ́ɔng), ฟ้องร้อง (th) (fɔ́ɔng-rɔ́ɔng)
  • Tibetan: ཁྲིམས་ལ་བསྐྱལ (khrims la bskyal)
  • Tok Pisin: kotim
  • Turkish: mahkemeye vermek
  • Vietnamese: thưa kiện (vi), kiện (vi)
  • White Hmong: foob

See also

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  • fig-sue

References

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  1. ^ 1841, Richard Henry Dana Jr., The Seaman's Friend

Anagrams

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  • ESU, EUS, SEU, UEs, ues, use

Ewe

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /suè/

Adjective

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suè

  1. small

French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sy/
  • Audio (France (Lyon)):(file)
  • Homophones: su, suent, sues, sus, sut, sût
  • Rhymes: -y

Verb

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sue

  1. inflection of suer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative
  2. feminine singular past participle of savoir

Anagrams

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  • eus, use, usé

Galician

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Verb

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sue

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of suar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin suae.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsu.e/
  • Rhymes: -ue
  • Hyphenation: sù‧e

Adjective

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sue

  1. plural of sua

Anagrams

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  • use

Japanese

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Romanization

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sue

  1. Rōmaji transcription of すえ

Latin

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Pronunciation

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  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsu.ɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsuː.e]

Verb

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sue

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of suō

Noun

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sue

  1. ablative singular of sūs

Middle English

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Noun

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sue

  1. alternative form of sowe

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsu.i/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsu.i/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsu.e/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsu.ɨ/
  • Hyphenation: su‧e

Verb

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sue

  1. inflection of suar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Sardinian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Classical Latin sūs, suem, from Proto-Italic *sūs, derived from Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig, hog, swine”). Compare Nuorese sughe, Sassarese sua (dialectal sui).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsue/

Noun

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sue f (plural sues) (Logudorese)

  1. sow (female pig) Synonyms: lòvia, tzotza

See also

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  • berre
  • porcu

References

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  • Rubattu, Antoninu (2006), Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
  • Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964), “súe”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

Tarantino

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Pronoun

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sue m (possessive, feminine soje)

  1. his

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