Translingual

A wild boar, Sus scrofa

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Sus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Suidae – the pigs.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Mammalia - class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort; Eutheria - infraclass; Placentalia - cohort; Boreoeutheria - magnorder; Laurasiatheria - superorder; Cetartiodactyla - clade; Artiodactyla - order; Suidae - family

Hyponyms

• Sus scrofa (the wild boar)
• Sus domesticus (the domestic pig)

English

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.

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• ãnsus
• nsus
• nsusu
• susu

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin sūsum, from Latin sursūm. Compare Daco-Romanian sus.

Adverb

sus

1. up

Antonyms

• ghios/nghios

Cebuano

Etymology

Shortened form of susmaryosep.

Interjection

sus

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

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowing from English shoes.

Noun

sus

1. shoe

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)

Synonyms

• susen

Inflection

Verb

sus

1. imperative of suse

Finnish

Interjection

sus

1. oh; used only in the expression shown in the example below.
   • Sus siunatkoon!‎

     Oh my God!

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-person singular past historic of savoir
2. second-person singular past historic of savoir

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

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /suːs/

Noun

sūs m, f ‎(genitive suis); third declension

1. pig

Declension

Third declension, irregular.

Synonyms

• porcus, scrofa

Derived terms

Descendants

• Italian: suino
• 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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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

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)

Norman

Pronunciation

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

Northern Sami

Pronoun

sus

1. locative of son

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin subtus.

Preposition

sus

1. under; underneath

Descendants

• French: sous

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin sūsum, from Latin sūrsum.

Preposition

sus

1. on; on top of; atop

Descendants

• French: sus
• Norman: sus

Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin, Late Latin root sūsum, from Latin sūrsum.

Adverb

sus

1. up

Antonyms

• jos

See also

• deasupra
• peste

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sus/

Adjective

sus pl

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

Related terms

Turkish

Verb

sus

1. second-person singular imperative of susmak

West Frisian

Etymology

From suster, from Old Frisian swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr. Compare Dutch zuster, zus, Low German swester, English sister, German Schwester, Danish søster.

Noun

sus c ‎(plural sussen)

1. sister