sus

See also: Sus, SUS, sús, süs, šus, -sus, sus-, sus', Sus., šūs, and Suś

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʌs/
• Rhymes: -ʌs

Etymology 1

Noun

sus (uncountable)

1. (Britain, 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.

Etymology 2

Clipping of suspicious.

Adjective

sus (comparative more sus, superlative most sus)

1. (slang) Suspicious; having suspicions or questions.
   • 2010, Olwyn Conrau, The Importance of Being Cool‎^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], Bloomington: Xlibris:

     I'm still really sus about those crocs we found in the drains.

2. (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 ...

Anagrams

• U.S.S., USS, us's

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zus, shortening of zuster. Equivalent to a shortening of suster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sœs/

Noun

sus (plural susse, diminutive sussie)

1. sister (female sibling)

   Synonym: suster

Related terms

• suster

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

• ãnsus, nsus, nsusu, susu

Etymology

From Late Latin sūsum, from Latin sursūm. Compare Romanian sus.

Adverb

sus

1. up

Antonyms

• ghios/nghios

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Cebuano

Etymology

Probably a shortening of susmaryosep.

Interjection

sus

1. used as an expression of anger, frustration or disbelief

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Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English shoes.

Noun

sus

1. shoe

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suːs/, [suːˀs]

Noun

sus n (singular definite suset, plural indefinite sus)

1. whistling, singing
2. whisper, soughing
3. whizz
4. 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

1. imperative of suse

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Finnish

Etymology

Shortening from Jeesus.

Interjection

sus

1. oh; used only in the expression shown in the example below

   Sus siunatkoon!

   Oh my God!

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French

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Old French [Term?], from Vulgar Latin sūsum, from Latin sūrsum. Cognate to Italian su.

Adverb

sus

1. (dated) up

Derived terms

• en sus
• en sus de

Etymology 2

see savoir

Verb

sus

1. first/second-person singular past historic of savoir

Further reading

• “sus” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Irarutu

Noun

sus

1. (woman's) breast

References

• J. C. Anceaux, The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum (2013), page 46

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *suH-. Compare Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Pali sūkara, English swine, sow.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /suːs/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sus/

Noun

sūs m or f (irregular, genitive suis); third declension

1. pig

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

Synonyms

• porcus, scrofa

Derived terms

• subulcus
• sucerda
• sucidia
• sucula
• suile
• suillus

 

Descendants

• Romanian: sor (possibly)
• Sardinian: sue (Campidanese)

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, 1883–1887)
• sus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[4], 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...)
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French sus.

Adverb

sus

1. on; on top of

Preposition

sus

1. on; on top of; atop

Descendants

• French: sus (obsolete)

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Norman

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey)

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Etymology 1

From Old French sus, from Latin sursum.

Preposition

sus

1. (Guernsey) on

Etymology 2

Verb

sus

1. first-person singular preterite of saver

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Northern Sami

Pronoun

sus

1. locative of son

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

sus

1. imperative of susa

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Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin subtus.

Alternative forms

• suz, souz, sos, sost

Preposition

sus

1. under; underneath

Descendants

• Middle French: soubs
  • French: sous
• Norman: souôs

Etymology 2

From Late Latin sūsum, from Latin sūrsum.

Preposition

sus

1. on; on top of; atop

Descendants

• French: sus
• Norman: sus

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Portuguese

Interjection

sus!

1. come on! (inducing courage or willpower)

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Romanian

Etymology

From Late Latin sūsum, from Latin sūrsum.

Adverb

sus

1. up

Antonyms

• jos

See also

• deasupra
• peste

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sus/

Adjective

sus pl (possessive determiner)

1. plural of su His, her, its, one's, their (with plural possessee).
2. (formal) Your (with plural possessee).

Related terms

    Spanish possessive adjectives

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

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Turkish

Verb

sus

1. second-person singular imperative of susmak

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Zazaki

Noun

sus n

1. A plant used in drug production