seu

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See also: SEU, seü, sèu, séú, sɛu, and sếu

Aromanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin sēbum. Compare Romanian seu.

Noun[edit]

seu n (plural seuri)

  1. animal fat, suet, tallow

Catalan[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Old Catalan sou (feminine sua), from Latin suum, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos, from *swé (“self”).. The original stem was modified by analogy with meu.

The weak form son is also from Latin suum in an unstressed (monosyllabic) position.

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

seu (feminine seva or seua, masculine plural seus, feminine plural seves or seues)

  1. his, her/hers, its
  2. their, theirs
  3. your, yours (alluding to vostè or vostès)
Usage notes[edit]
  • When preceding a noun, seu is always preceded by the appropriate definite article.
  • The third person possessive changes form for number and gender according to the number and gender of the item possessed, not the number and gender of the possessor.
Declension[edit]
Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
strong/subject weak (direct object) weak (indirect object) possessive
singular proclitic enclitic proclitic enclitic
1st person jo, mi3 em, m’ -me, ’m em, m’ -me, ’m meu
1st person majestic1 nós ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd person tu et, t’ -te, ’t et, t’ -te, ’t teu
2nd person formal1 vós us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person very formal2 vostè el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd person masculine ell el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd person feminine ella la, l’4 -la li -li seu
3rd person neuter ho -ho li -li seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s’ -se, ’s es, s’ -se, ’s seu
plural
1st person nosaltres ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd person vosaltres us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person formal2 vostès els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person masculine ells els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person feminine elles les -les els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s’ -se, ’s es, s’ -se, ’s seu
adverbial
ablative/genitive en, n’ -ne, ’n
locative hi -hi
1) Behaves grammatically as plural.
2) Behaves grammatically as third person. 		3) Only as object of a preposition.
4) Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.
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Etymology 2[edit]

Inherited from Latin sedem.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

seu f (plural seus)

  1. seat
    Synonym: central

Etymology 3[edit]

See seure.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

seu

  1. third-person singular present indicative form of seure
  2. second-person singular imperative form of seure

Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese seu, from an older sou (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria; it fell out of use during the 14th century), from Latin suus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

seu m (masculine singular seu, masculine plural seus, feminine singular súa, feminine plural súas)

  1. (possessive) his, hers, its
  2. (possessive) their

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • “sou” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “seu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “seu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “seu” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “seu” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Guinea-Bissau Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Portuguese céu. Cognate with Kabuverdianu seu.

Noun[edit]

seu

  1. sky

Kabuverdianu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Portuguese céu.

Noun[edit]

seu

  1. sky

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Apocope of sīve.

Pronunciation[edit]

Conjunction[edit]

seu

  1. or
  2. either... or... (seu... seu...)

Descendants[edit]

  • Romanian: sau

References[edit]

  • “seu”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “seu”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • seu 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)
  • seu in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Ligurian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin suus, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos, derived from *swé (“self”).

Adjective[edit]

-

  1. his
  2. her
  3. its
  4. their

Pronoun[edit]

seu (invariable)

  1. Third-person singular possessive pronoun
    1. his
    2. hers
    3. its
  2. Third-person plural possessive pronoun; theirs
Synonyms[edit]

See also[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Latin soror, from Proto-Italic *swezōr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

Noun[edit]

seu f (invariable)

  1. sister

See also[edit]

Maquiritari[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Ideophone[edit]

seu

  1. wham, pow, snap, bam

References[edit]

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “sew”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon

Nyishi[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

seu

  1. cattle, cow

References[edit]

  • P. T. Abraham (2005) A Grammar of Nyishi Language‎[1], Delhi: Farsight Publishers and Distributors

Old French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • seü (diaereses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

Verb[edit]

seu

  1. past participle of savoir

Old Galician-Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin suus.

Pronoun[edit]

seu m (plural seus, feminine sa, feminine plural sas)

  1. third-person singular possessive pronoun: his, her, its

Descendants[edit]

Portuguese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: seu

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese seu, sou, from Latin suus, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos, from *swé (“self”).

Pronoun[edit]

seu (feminine sua, masculine plural seus, feminine plural suas)

  2. Third-person singular possessive pronoun. his; her; its
  4. Third-person plural possessive pronoun. their; theirs
  6. Second-person singular possessive pronoun. your; yours (when using the second-person pronoun você)
    Posso ficar em sua casa?
    Can I stay at your house?
  8. Second-person plural possessive pronoun. your; yours (when using the second-person pronoun vocês)
  10. you (used before epithets for emphasis)
    Seu idiota!
    You idiot! (addressing one man)
    Suas idiotas.
    You idiots! (addressing a group of women)
Usage notes[edit]
  • Inflects according to the object’s (possessee's) gender and number. In the third person (singular and plural) the possessor can often be ambiguous in which case seu/sua/seus/suas gets replaced with dele (“his”) or dela (“hers”), placed after the possessee; or with deles (“theirs”) or delas for plural possessors.
Synonyms[edit]
See also[edit]
Possessee
Singular Plural
Masculine Feminine Masculine Feminine
Possessor Singular First person meu minha meus minhas
Second person teu tua teus tuas
Third person seu sua seus suas
Plural First person nosso nossa nossos nossas
Second person vosso vossa vossos vossas
Third person seu sua seus suas
See also: Appendix:Possessive#Portuguese


Etymology 2[edit]

From senhor, from Old Galician-Portuguese sennor, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative of senex (“old”), from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).

Noun[edit]

seu m (uncountable)

  2. (familiar) mister (as a form of address)
    Synonym: senhor
    Estive com o seu Luís ontem.
    I was with Mr. Luís yesterday.

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin sēbum, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out”).

Noun[edit]

seu n (plural seuri)

  1. animal fat
  2. suet
  3. tallow

See also[edit]

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