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Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Susu.

Symbol

sus

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Susu.

See also

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Clipping of suspicion. Compare suss out, suss.

Noun

sus (uncountable)

  1. (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.

Etymology 2

Clipping of suspicious.

Adjective

sus (comparative more sus or susser, superlative most sus or sussest) (slang)

  1. Suspicious; having suspicions or questions.
    • 2010, Olwyn Conrau, The Importance of Being Cool‎[2], 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[3], 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[4], Bloomington: Xlibris:
      I'm still really sus about those crocs we found in the drains.
  2. Suspicious; raising or 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 ...
  4. (often humorous) Acting in a borderline sexually inappropriate way, causing others to "suspect" them of being sexually attracted to someone and trying to hide it.
    That guy is always acting sus with the boys—are you sure he's not gay?
    • 2021 September 9, @COGxCam, Twitter‎[5], archived from the original on 18 December 2023:
      I was acting sus with my friend turns out he's gay I don't think he was joking
    • 2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi‎[6], Hachette, →ISBN:
      Maybe I’m a sus hetero bro who's been subtly abusive and deserves to be blocked out entirely.
    • 2022 October 31, u/Keggerbev, “(post title)”, in Reddit‎[7], r/Advice, archived from the original on 18 December 2023:
      Gf [30] was acting sus around another guy and not sure If im [M20] just overthinking it.
    • 2023 March 9, u/rainbows_are_a_mess, “The Bombay Movie Club”, in Reddit‎[8], r/mumbai, archived from the original on 17 December 2023:
      I've also heard many instances of him acting sus with girls.
    • 2023 August 6, @bridaaah, Twitter‎[9], archived from the original on 17 December 2023:
      Totally not being sus with my controller
Derived terms
See also

Etymology 3

Clipping of suspended.

Adjective

sus (not comparable)

  1. (music) Abbreviation of suspended.

See also

Etymology 4

Clipping of suspend.

Verb

sus (third-person singular simple present susses, present participle sussing, simple past and past participle sussed)

  1. (transitive, Internet slang) To suspend an account on social media (almost exclusively Twitter/X).
    yeah, the account posting offensive stuff got sussed.

Etymology 5

Alternative forms

Interjection

sus

  2. (Internet slang, humorous, nonce word) A nonsense word commonly used in YouTube Poop by playing an audio clip forward and in reverse consecutively; said in reference to this editing style, and to describe palindromes and humorously symmetrized images.
    Synonyms: joj, sos
    • 2019 June 11, Alfred Coleman III, “Minecraft w/ PaperBoxHouse #2”, in YouTube‎[10]:
      You better fuf, and then you better broob, 'cause if you don't broob, you're nothing but a nothing, and then the nothing becomes a nothing, and then your nothing is a joj, and then your nothing is sus […]
    • [2021, Randall Halle, “Cine-Cognition: Collage, Fragmentation, Integration” (chapter 6), in Visual Alterity: Seeing Difference in Cinema, →ISBN, pages 94–95:
      ViV [video in video], lagging or stuttering images to get figures to say nonsense words (“SuS”), became popular. […] What appears as chaos, nonsense, or distortion to someone outside the subculture turns out to be a set of references added on as layers and layers of images. Using rapid forward reverse and word-splice editing to make someone else’s project lag or getting a character to say “SuS” or “JoJ” becomes a form of legible code that has a multiplicity of possible orders.]

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

sus (plural susse, diminutive sussie)

  1. sister (female sibling)
    Synonym: suster

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German sus. Compare German sonst.

Pronunciation

Adverb

sus

  1. otherwise
    • 1968/1969, Alois Senti with Robert Wildhaber, “Die Sagen der Gemeinde Flums [The sagas of the municipality Flums]”, in Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde‎[11], 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[12], Mels: Verlag des Sarganserländers, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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.

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin sūsum. Compare Romanian sus.

Adverb

sus

  1. up
    Antonym: ghios

Cebuano

Etymology

Probably a shortening of susmaryosep.

Interjection

sus

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

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English shoes.

Noun

sus

  1. shoe

Danish

Etymology

From the verb suse (“to hiss, whistle”), of imitative origin, similar to German sausen (“to whizz”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

sus

  1. imperative of suse

Fala

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsus/
  • Rhymes: -us
  • Syllabification: sus

Determiner

sus f pl

  1. (Lagarteiru) apocopic form of súas (“his, her, its, their”)

Usage notes

  • Used in Lagarteiru before a feminine plural noun as part of a noun phrase.

See also

Fala possessive determiners and pronouns
possessee
singular plural
masculine feminine masculine feminine
possessor first person singular mei miña meis miñas
plural nosu nosa nosus nosas
second person singular tei túa, tu1 teis túas, tus1
plural vosu vosa vosus vosas
third person sei súa, su1 seis súas, sus1

1 Determiner forms used in Lagarteiru before a noun.

References

  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎[13], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 256

Finnish

Etymology

Shortening from Jeesus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsus/, [ˈs̠us̠]
  • Rhymes: -us
  • Syllabification(key): sus
  • Hyphenation(key): sus

Interjection

sus

  1. oh; used only in the expression shown in the example below
    Sus siunatkoon!
    Oh my God!

Further reading

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old French sus, from Latin sūsum.

Adverb

sus

  1. (dated) up
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

sus

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

Further reading

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch soes (“choux pastry”).

Noun

sus

  1. choux pastry (a type of light pastry that is used to make profiteroles, éclairs, chouquettes, etc.)
  2. profiterole (a small, hollow case of choux pastry with a filling)

Etymology 2

Clipping of suster.

Noun

sus

  1. (rare) sis
  2. (colloquial) nurse; nun

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English suspicious.

Adjective

sus (comparative lebih sus, superlative paling sus)

  1. (slang) suspicious
    Synonym: mencurigakan

Further reading

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

Kamkata-viri

Etymology

From Proto-Nuristani, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *swásā, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

Noun

sus f (Western, Northeastern, Southeastern)[1][2]

  1. sister

References

  1. ^ Strand, Richard F. (2016), “s′us”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎[1]
  2. ^ Halfmann, Jakob (2024). A Grammatical Description of the Katë Language (Nuristani) (PhD thesis). Köln: Universität zu Köln.

Kashubian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsus/
  • Rhymes: -us
  • Syllabification: sus

Etymology 1

    Sus (1).

    Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sъsьlъ with folk etymology from etymology 2.

    Noun

    sus m animal

    1. ground squirrel (rodent of the genus Spermophilus)
    Declension
    Declension of sus
    singular plural
    nominative sus susë
    genitive susa susów
    dative susowi susóm
    accusative susu susë
    instrumental susã susama
    locative susu susach
    vocative susu susë
    Derived terms

    Etymology 2

      Borrowed from German Schuss.

      Noun

      sus m inan

      1. jump, leap
        Synonyms: skòk, hops
      Declension
      Declension of sus
      singular plural
      nominative sus susë
      genitive susa susów
      dative susowi susóm
      accusative sus susë
      instrumental susã susama
      locative susu susach
      vocative susu susë

      Further reading

      • Stefan Ramułt (1893), “sus”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian)
      • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “suseł”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎[15]
      • “sus”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

      Latin

      Etymology

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

      Pronunciation

      Noun

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

      1. pig, swine, hog, boar, or sow
        Synonyms: porcus, scrōfa, aper, saetiger
        • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 2.519:
          Venit hiems: teritur Sicyonia baca trapetis,
          glande sues laeti redeunt, dant arbuta silvae;
          et varios ponit fetus autumnus et alte
          mitis in apricis coquitur vindemia saxis.
          • Translation by James B. Greenough
            Winter is come: in olive-mills they bruise
            The Sicyonian berry; acorn-cheered
            The swine troop homeward; woods their arbutes yield;
            So, various fruit sheds Autumn, and high up
            On sunny rocks the mellowing vintage bakes.

      Declension

      Third-declension noun (irregular).

      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

      Descendants

      • Romanian: sor (possibly)
      • Sardinian: sughe, sue
      • Sassarese: sua, (dialectal) sui

      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, 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[16], 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, →ISBN
      • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “sūs”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 639

      Maltese

      Pronunciation

      Verb

      sus

      1. second-person singular imperative of sies

      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)

      Middle High German

      Alternative forms

      Etymology

      From Old High German sus.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈs̠us̠/

      Adverb

      sus

      1. in this manner that follows, thus
      2. otherwise

      Descendants

      Further reading

      Norman

      Pronunciation

      Etymology 1

      From Old French sus, from Latin sūsum.

      Preposition

      sus

      1. (Guernsey) on
        • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎[17], page 524:
          Orguillaeux coume ùn pouâis sûs v'louss.
          As proud as a louse on velvet.

      Etymology 2

      Verb

      sus

      1. first-person singular preterite of saver

      Northern Sami

      Pronunciation

      This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

      Pronoun

      sus

      1. locative of son

      Norwegian Nynorsk

      Verb

      sus

      1. imperative of susa

      Occitan

      Etymology

      Inherited from Latin sūsum.

      Pronunciation

      Preposition

      sus

      1. over
        Antonym: jos

      References

      Old Catalan

      Etymology

      Inherited from Latin sūsum.

      Adverb

      sus

      1. up
        Antonym: jus

      Preposition

      sus

      1. above
        Antonym: jus

      References

      • “sus” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

      Old French

      Etymology 1

      Inherited from Latin sūsum.

      Pronunciation

      Adverb

      sus

      1. above; high up
        Antonym: jus

      Preposition

      sus

      1. above; on top of
      Descendants

      References

      Etymology 2

      Preposition

      sus

      1. alternative form of soz (“under”)

      Old High German

      Etymology

      Related to Proto-West Germanic *swā (“in this manner”), see also Dutch zus.

      Adverb

      sus

      1. in this manner that follows, thus

      Descendants

      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

      FWOTD – 5 January 2025

      Etymology

      Mazurized form of szus, from German Schuss, from Middle High German, from Old High German scuz, from Proto-West Germanic *skuti.

      Pronunciation

       
      • Audio:(file)
      • Rhymes: -us
      • Syllabification: sus

      Noun

      sus m inan

      1. 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.

      Declension

      Declension of sus
      singular plural
      nominative sus susy
      genitive susa 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
      • Aleksander Saloni (1908), “sus”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne‎[18] (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 341

      Portuguese

      Pronunciation

       

      Interjection

      sus!

      1. come on! (inducing courage or willpower)

      Further reading

      Romanian

      Alternative forms

      • sos — rare or archaic; influenced by the antonym jos

      Etymology

      Inherited from Latin sūsum.

      Adverb

      sus

      1. up
        Antonym: jos

      See also

      References

      Spanish

      Etymology

      From Old Spanish sus, apocopic form of suso.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /sus/ [sus]
      • Rhymes: -us
      • Syllabification: sus

      Interjection

      sus

      1. c'mon; attaboy

      Determiner

      sus pl (possessive)

      1. plural of su; one's, his, her, its, their (with plural possessee)
      2. (formal) your (with plural possessee)
      Spanish possessive determiners
      possessor preposed postposed or standalone
      singular
      possessee       		plural
      possessee       		singular possessee plural possessee
      masculine feminine masculine feminine
      first person singular mi mis mío mía míos mías
      plural (same as postposed/standalone) nuestro nuestra nuestros nuestras
      second person 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

      Swedish

      sound similar to sus
      sus, when disregarding the sound of the wind blowing over the microphone

      Etymology

      Deverbal from susa.

      Noun

      sus n

      1. a drawn-out, soft, tone-less murmur, like from a wind; sighing, soughing
        tallens sus
        the sighing of the pine
        1. murmur (in a crowd)
          ett sus gick genom publiken
          a murmur went through the crowd

      Declension

      Declension of sus
      nominative genitive
      singular indefinite sus sus
      definite suset susets
      plural indefinite — —
      definite — —

      Derived terms

      See also

      • vin (“howl, whistle”)

      References

      Tagalog

      Etymology

      From a minced oath clipping of Hesus, from Spanish Jesús.

      Pronunciation

      Interjection

      sus (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜐ᜔) (colloquial)

      1. geez; c'mon
        Synonym: (Rizal) haw

      Turkish

      Pronunciation

      Interjection

      sus

      1. Used to show agreement, that the addressee need not say any more
        "Sıcaktan bayılacak gibiyim!" "Sus sus!"
        "It's so hot I fee like I'm going to pass out!" "Right?"

      Verb

      sus

      1. second-person singular imperative of susmak

      Zazaki

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      1. A plant used in drug production
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