Clipping ofEnglishSuena.
sue
- (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forSuena.
FromMiddle Englishseuen,sewen,siwen, borrowed fromAnglo-Normansuer,siwer et al. andOld Frenchsivre(“to follow after”) (modernFrenchsuivre), fromVulgar Latin*sequere(“to follow”), fromLatinsequi. Cognate withItalianseguire andSpanishseguir.Doublet ofsegue. Related tosuit.
sue (third-person singular simple presentsues,present participlesuing,simple past and past participlesued)
- (transitive) To file alegal action against someone, generally a non-criminal (civil) action.
sue someone for selling a faulty product
I plan tosue you for everything you have.
1897, Warren Bert Kimberly, “W. Horgan”, inHistory of West Australia:He wassued by the late Geo. Walpole Leake for slander, and after two trials, occupying eight days, he was mulcted in heavy damages and costs.
- (ambitransitive) To seek byrequest; to makeapplication; topetition; toentreat; toplead.
The king of Bimsasued for peace after Nynal's armies overran his territory; he knew any further resistance would only harm the common people.
- (transitive, falconry, of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.).
- (transitive, nautical) To leave high and dry on shore.[1]
tosue a ship
- (obsolete, transitive) Tocourt.
- (obsolete, transitive) Tofollow.
1470–1485 (date produced),Thomas Malory, “Capitulum iv”, in[Le Morte Darthur], book XIII, [London: […] byWilliam Caxton], published31 July 1485,→OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor,Le Morte Darthur […], London:David Nutt, […],1889,→OCLC:And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir,swith me.’- And the old knight said to the young knight, 'Sir, follow me'.
1590,Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, inThe Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC:though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now hersewd, / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.
to file a legal action
- Albanian:padit (sq)
- Arabic:قَاضَى(qāḍā)
- Armenian:please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani:məhkəməyə vermək
- Basque:please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian:завеждам дело(zaveždam delo)
- Burmese:တရားစွဲ (my)(ta.ra:cwai:)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:起訴 /起诉 (zh)(qǐsù)
- Czech:žalovat (cs)
- Danish:lægge sag an,sagsøge,stævne (da)
- Dutch:aanklagen (nl)
- Esperanto:persekuti
- Faroese:saksøkja,lógsøkja
- Finnish:nostaakanne,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:תבע (he)(tavá)
- Hungarian:beperel (hu),perel (hu),perbe fog
- Icelandic:lögsækja
- 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)
- Korean:고소하다 (ko)(gosohada)
- Ladin:dé sëura
- Lao:ຟ້ອງ(fǭng)
- Latin:lītigō,līteminferō
- Mongolian:please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:saksøke
- Nynorsk:saksøkja,saksøkje,saksøka,saksøke
- Polish:pozywać (pl) impf,pozwać (pl) pf
- Portuguese:processar (pt),demandar (pt)
- Romanian:da în judecată
- Russian:пресле́довать всуде́бномпоря́дке impf(preslédovatʹ v sudébnom porjádke),подава́ть всуд impf(podavátʹ v sud),предъявля́тьиск impf(predʺjavljátʹ isk),суди́ться (ru) impf(sudítʹsja) (с - with)
- Scottish Gaelic:tagair
- Slovene:tožiti impf
- Spanish:demandar (es)
- Swedish:stämma (sv),lagföra (sv)
- Tagalog:hablahin,maghabla,idemanda,magdemanda
- Thai:ฟ้อง (th)(fɔ́ɔng),ฟ้องร้อง (th)(fɔ́ɔng-rɔ́ɔng)
- Tibetan:ཁྲིམས་ལ་བསྐྱལ(khrims la bskyal)
- Tok Pisin:kotim
- Turkish:mahkemeye vermek
- Vietnamese:thưa kiện (vi),kiện (vi)
- White Hmong:foob
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suè
- small
sue
- inflection ofsuer:
- first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
- second-personsingularimperative
- femininesingularpastparticiple ofsavoir
sue
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection ofsuar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
FromLatinsuae.
sue
- plural ofsua
sue
- Rōmaji transcription ofすえ
sue
- second-personsingularpresentactiveimperative ofsuō
sue
- ablativesingular ofsūs
sue
- alternative form ofsowe
sue
- inflection ofsuar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
Inherited fromClassical Latinsūs, suem, fromProto-Italic*sūs, derived fromProto-Indo-European*suH-(“pig, hog, swine”). CompareNuoresesughe,Sassaresesua (dialectalsui).
sue f (pluralsues)(Logudorese)
- sow(female pig)
- Synonyms:lòvia,tzotza
- Rubattu, Antoninu (2006),Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
- Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964), “súe”, inDizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
sue m (possessive,femininesoje)
- his
