sue

See also: Sue, sué, su'e, and sü

English

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”) ( > 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

• IPA^(key): /suː/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: Sioux, sou, Su, Sue

Verb

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 action.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
3. (transitive, falconry, of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.).
4. (transitive, nautical) To leave high and dry on shore.

   to sue a ship

   (Can we find and add a quotation of R. H. Dana, Jr to this entry?)

5. (obsolete, transitive) To court.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To follow.
   • Template:RQ:Mlry MrtArthr2

     And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, III. iv:

     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

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

Derived terms

• sue for peace

Translations

to file a legal action

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Burmese: တရားစွဲ (my) (ta.ra:cwai:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 起訴／起诉 (zh) (qǐsù), 起诉 (zh) (qǐsù)

• Czech: žalovat (cs)
• Danish: lægge sag an, sagsøge, stævne (da)
• Dutch: aanklagen (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• 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: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: beperel (hu), perel (hu), perbe fog
• 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)
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• Korean: 고소하다 (ko) (gosohada)
• Lao: ຟ້ອງ (fǭng)
• Latin: lītem inferō
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: saksøke

  Nynorsk: saksøkje

• Polish: pozwać (pl)
• Portuguese: processar (pt), demandar (pt)
• 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
• Spanish: demandar (es)
• Swedish: stämma (sv)
• Thai: ฟ้อง (th) (fɔ́ɔng), ฟ้องร้อง (th) (fɔ́ɔng-rɔ́ɔng)
• Tibetan: ཁྲིམས་ལ་བསྐྱལ (khrims la bskyal)
• Tok Pisin: kotim
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: thưa kiện (vi), kiện (vi)
• White Hmong: foob

Anagrams

• SEU, UEs, ues, use

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Ewe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suːɛ/, /suːeɪ/

Adjective

sue

1. small

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy/
• Homophones: su, suent, sues, sus, sut, sût
• Rhymes: -y

Verb

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

• eus, use, usé

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Italian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin suae

Adjective

sue

1. his, her, its; plural of sua

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Japanese

Romanization

sue

1. Rōmaji transcription of すえ

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.e/, [ˈs̠uɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.e/, [ˈsuːe]

Verb

(deprecated template usage) sue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of suō

Noun

(deprecated template usage) sue

1. ablative singular of sūs

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Middle English

Noun

sue

1. Alternative form of sowe

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Portuguese

Verb

sue

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Tarantino

Pronoun

sue m (possessive) (Feminine: soje)

1. his