sus
See also: Sus, SUS, sús, süs, šus, -sus, sus-, sus', Sus., šūs, and Suś
Translingual
Symbol
sus
- (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Susu.
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sʌs/
- Rhymes: -ʌs
- Homophone: suss
Etymology 1
Clipping of suspicion.
Noun
sus (uncountable)
- (UK, informal) Suspicion (in terms of a sus law).
- 2002, Simon James, British Government: A Reader in Policy Making (page 84)
- The committee […] said ‘sus’ had acquired a symbolic significance out of all proportion to its significance as a criminal charge.
- 2002, Simon James, British Government: A Reader in Policy Making (page 84)
Etymology 2
Clipping of suspicious.
Adjective
sus (comparative more sus, superlative most sus)
- (slang) Suspicious; having suspicions or questions.
- 2010, Olwyn Conrau, The Importance of Being Cool, Carindale: Glass House Brooks, page 134:
- Even my lame psychic ability told me he'd be pretty sus if he found me pissing on in the lounge room on a week night.
- 2015, Peter King, The Weaving, Wellington: Peter King Publishing:
- Everyone had been a bit sus about Mrs Jones and Lana Vilenskaya, so it wasn't surprising that Mrs Jones stood to speak.
- 2018, Ron Chinchen, Scent of the Beast, Bloomington: Xlibris:
- I'm still really sus about those crocs we found in the drains.
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- (slang) Suspicious; raising suspicions, causing people to have suspicions.
- 1972, Frank Norman, The lives of Frank Norman: told in extracts from his autobiographical books Banana boy, Stand on me, Bang to rights, The guntz:
- Why this should be I will never know except I might be a pretty sus looking geezer or something. They took about six of us who were in the cafe down the nick and dubbed us up in separate peters. After a long while these two bogies came into ...
- 1972, Frank Norman, The lives of Frank Norman: told in extracts from his autobiographical books Banana boy, Stand on me, Bang to rights, The guntz:
- (slang, derogatory) (of a man) gay or effeminate.
Etymology 3
Clipping of suspended.
Adjective
sus (not comparable)
- (music) Abbreviation of suspended.
See also
- sus chord
Anagrams
- U.S.S., USS, USs, us's
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch zus, shortening of zuster. Equivalent to a shortening of suster.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sœs/
Noun
sus (plural susse, diminutive sussie)
- sister (female sibling)
- Synonym: suster
Related terms
- suster
Alemannic German
Alternative forms
- susch, suscht
Etymology
From Middle High German sus. Compare German sonst.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sus/, /sʊs/
Adverb
sus
- otherwise
- 1968/1969, Alois Senti, “Die Sagen der Gemeinde Flums [The sagas of the municipality Flums]”, in Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde, volume 65, number 3/4, Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde, published 1969, Vum Ggaueler, page 154:
- 138 […] Äs seï ä schwarzä Maa mitemä Huet gsii, aber uuni Chopf. «Ich haa ds Büechli nid beï mer, sus hett nä aagsprocha...», heï dr Pfarrer Zwyfel gsäit. Gsii isch es dr Ggaueler.
- 138 […] It has [reportedly] been a black man with a hat but without a head. “I don't have this booklet on me, otherwise I would have talked to him...” has pastor Zwyfel [reportedly] said. It has been the Ggaueler.
- 1970, Alois Senti, Häxäwärch: Sibä Gschichtä im Flumsertiäläggt, Mels: Verlag des Sarganserländers, LCCN 72340077, OCLC 249211944, page 27:
- Wägemä äinzigä Moul hät aber niemert müügä nämis säägä. Sus hett jo dr Leïrer Aberli schu än Uusreïd gfundä, ass er nid hett müessä guu.
- But nobody wanted to say anything [only] because of a single time. Otherwise the teacher Aberli would have found an excuse anyway so that he wouldn't have had to go.
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Related terms
- suschtig
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- ãnsus, nsus, nsusu, susu
Etymology
From Late Latin sūsum, from Latin sursūm. Compare Romanian sus.
Adverb
sus
- up
Antonyms
- ghios / nghios
Cebuano
Etymology
Probably a shortening of susmaryosep.
Interjection
sus
- used as an expression of anger, frustration or disbelief
Chuukese
Etymology
Borrowed from English shoes.
Noun
sus
- shoe
Danish
Etymology
From the verb suse (“to hiss, whistle”), of imitative origin, similar to German sausen (“to whizz”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /suːs/, [suːˀs]
Noun
sus n (singular definite suset, plural indefinite sus)
- whistling, singing
- whisper, soughing
- whizz
- rush (pleasurable sensation experienced after use of a stimulant)
Inflection
Declension of sus
| neuter gender | Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | sus | suset | sus | susene |
| genitive | sus' | susets | sus' | susenes |
Synonyms
- susen
Verb
sus
- imperative of suse
Finnish
Etymology
Shortening from Jeesus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsus/, [ˈs̠us̠]
- Rhymes: -us
- Syllabification(key): sus
Interjection
sus
- oh; used only in the expression shown in the example below
- Sus siunatkoon!
- Oh my God!
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sy/
- Homophones: su, sue, suent, sues, sut, sût
- Rhymes: -y
Etymology 1
From Old French sus, from Vulgar Latin sūsum, from Latin sūrsum. Cognate to Italian su or Spanish suso.
Adverb
sus
- (dated) up
Derived terms
- en sus
- en sus de
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
sus
- first/second-person singular past historic of savoir
Further reading
- “sus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Irarutu
Noun
sus
- (woman's) breast
References
- J. C. Anceaux, The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum (2013), page 46
Kashubian
Sus.
Etymology
From a back-formation of Proto-Slavic *sъsьlъ. Cognates include Polish suseł and Czech sysel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsus/
- Hyphenation: sus
Noun
sus m anim
- ground squirrel (rodent of the genus Spermophilus)
References
- Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “suseł”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *sūs, from Proto-Indo-European *suH-. Compare Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Pali sūkara, English swine, sow.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /suːs/, [s̠uːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sus/, [sus]
Noun
sūs m or f (irregular, genitive suis); third declension
- pig
- Synonyms: porcus, scrōfa
Declension
Third-declension noun (irregular).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sūs | suēs |
| Genitive | suis | suum |
| Dative | suī | suibus sūbus subus |
| Accusative | suem | suēs |
| Ablative | sue | suibus sūbus subus |
| Vocative | sūs | suēs |
Derived terms
- subulcus
- sucerda
- sūcīdia
- sucula
- suīle
- suīllus
Descendants
- Romanian: sor (possibly)
- Sardinian: sughe, sue
References
- “sus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sus 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)
- sus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to have become independent, be no longer a minor: sui iuris factum esse
- (ambiguous) to outlive, survive all one's kin: omnium suorum or omnibus suis superstitem esse
- (ambiguous) to shed one's blood for one's fatherland: sanguinem suum pro patria effundere or profundere
- (ambiguous) to take measures for one's safety; to look after one's own interests: suis rebus or sibi consulere
- (ambiguous) to employ in the furtherance of one's interests: aliquid in usum suum conferre
- (ambiguous) to leave a great reputation behind one: magnam sui famam relinquere
- (ambiguous) to use up, make full use of one's spare time: otio abūti or otium ad suum usum transferre
- (ambiguous) to win renown amongst posterity by some act: nomen suum posteritati aliqua re commendare, propagare, prodere
- (ambiguous) to immortalise one's name: memoriam nominis sui immortalitati tradere, mandare, commendare
- (ambiguous) to take a thing to heart: demittere aliquid in pectus or in pectus animumque suum
- (ambiguous) to be contented: rebus suis, sorte sua contentum esse
- (ambiguous) to lose one's head, be beside oneself: sui (mentis) compotem non esse
- (ambiguous) to despair of one's position: desperare suis rebus
- (ambiguous) to cause oneself to be expected: exspectationem sui facere, commovere
- (ambiguous) self-confidence: fiducia sui (Liv. 25. 37)
- (ambiguous) a man of no self-control, self-indulgent: homo impotens sui
- (ambiguous) to do one's duty: officium suum facere, servare, colere, tueri, exsequi, praestare
- (ambiguous) to neglect one's duty: officium suum deserere, neglegere
- (ambiguous) to be courteous, obliging to some one: aliquem officiis suis complecti, prosequi
- (ambiguous) to follow one's inclinations: studiis suis obsequi (De Or. 1. 1. 3)
- (ambiguous) to be a strict disciplinarian in one's household: severum imperium in suis exercere, tenere (De Sen. 11. 37)
- (ambiguous) to go into mourning: vestem mutare (opp. ad vestitum suum redire) (Planc. 12. 29)
- (ambiguous) to give audience to some one: sui potestatem facere, praebere alicui
- (ambiguous) to have no debts: in suis nummis versari (Verr. 4. 6. 11)
- (ambiguous) (a state) has its own laws, is autonomous: suis legibus utitur (B. G. 1. 45. 3)
- (ambiguous) to grant a people its independence: populum liberum esse, libertate uti, sui iuris esse pati
- (ambiguous) to assert one's right: ius suum persequi
- (ambiguous) to obtain justice: ius suum adipisci (Liv. 1. 32. 10)
- (ambiguous) to maintain one's right: ius suum tenere, obtinere
- (ambiguous) to accept battle: potestatem sui facere (alicui) (cf. sect. XII. 9, note audientia...)
- (ambiguous) to have become independent, be no longer a minor: sui iuris factum esse
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “sūs”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 639
Maltese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /suːs/
Verb
sus
- second-person singular imperative of sies
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French sus.
Adverb
sus
- on; on top of
Preposition
sus
- on; on top of; atop
Descendants
- French: sus (obsolete)
Middle High German
Alternative forms
- sust, sunst
Etymology
From Old High German sus.
Adverb
sus
- in this manner that follows, thus
- otherwise
Descendants
- Alemannic German: sus, susch, suscht
- German: sonst
Further reading
- “sus” in Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch, Matthias von Lexer, 3 vols., Leipzig 1872–1878.
Norman
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Etymology 1
From Old French sus, from Latin sursum.
Preposition
sus
- (Guernsey) on
Verb
sus
- first-person singular preterite of saver
Northern Sami
Pronoun
sus
- locative of son
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
sus
- imperative of susa
Old French
Etymology 1
From Latin subtus.
Alternative forms
- suz, souz, sos, sost
Preposition
sus
- under; underneath
Descendants
- Middle French: soubs
- French: sous
- Norman: souôs
Etymology 2
From Late Latin sūsum, from Latin sūrsum.
Preposition
sus
- on; on top of; atop
Descendants
- French: sus
- Norman: sus
See also
- sus-
- suspend
Old High German
Etymology
Related to Proto-West Germanic *swā (“in this manner”), see also Dutch zus.
Adverb
sus
- in this manner that follows, thus
Descendants
- Middle High German: sus, sust, sunst
- Alemannic German: sus, susch, suscht
- German: sonst
References
- Sievers, Eduard. (2nd. ed. 1892) Bibliothek der ältesten deutschen Litteratur-Denkmäler. V. Band. Tatian. Lateinisch und altdeutsch mit ausführlichem Glossar herausgegeben, p. 438
Polish
Etymology
Mazurzenie of szus, from German Schuss, from Middle High German, from Old High German scuz, from Proto-West Germanic *skuti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sus/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -us
- Syllabification: sus
Noun
sus m inan
- caper, jump, leap (long, quick jump)
- 1922, Voltaire, chapter 1, in Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, transl., Prostaczek (L'ingénu):
- Zgoła inaczej zachował się pewien młody człowiek bardzo zręcznej postaci, który skoczył jednym susem poprzez głowy towarzyszy i znalazł się tuż nawprost panienki.
- That was not the behavior of a well-made youth, who, darting himself over the heads of his companions, suddenly stood before Miss Kerkabon.
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Declension
Declension of sus
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sus | susy |
| genitive | susu | susów |
| dative | susowi | susom |
| accusative | sus | susy |
| instrumental | susem | susami |
| locative | susie | susach |
| vocative | susie | susy |
Further reading
- sus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- sus in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Interjection
sus!
- come on! (inducing courage or willpower)
Romanian
Etymology
From Late Latin sūsum, from Latin sūrsum.
Adverb
sus
- up
Antonyms
- jos
See also
- deasupra
- peste
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sus/ [sus]
- Rhymes: -us
- Syllabification: sus
Interjection
sus
- c'mon; attaboy
Determiner
sus pl (possessive)
- plural of su; one's, his, her, its, their (with plural possessee)
- (formal) Your (with plural possessee)
Related terms
Spanish possessive determiners
| possessor | preposed | postposed or standalone | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| possessee | possessee | ||||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | ||||
| masculine | feminine | masculine | feminine | ||||
| First person: | singular: | mi | mis | mío | mía | míos | mías |
| plural: | (same as postposed/standalone) | nuestro | nuestra | nuestros | nuestras | ||
| Second person (informal): | singular: | tu | tus | tuyo | tuya | tuyos | tuyas |
| plural: | (same as postposed/standalone) | vuestro | vuestra | vuestros | vuestras | ||
| Third person: | su | sus | suyo | suya | suyos | suyas | |
Further reading
- “sus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Etymology
Deverbal from susa.
Noun
sus n
- a soft drawn-out murmur or whistling noise, like from a breeze or through a crowd
Declension
| Declension of sus | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | sus | suset | — | — |
| Genitive | sus | susets | — | — |
Derived terms
- i sus och dus
References
- sus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- sus in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- sus in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Turkish
Verb
sus
- second-person singular imperative of susmak
Zazaki
Noun
sus n
- A plant used in drug production