different between seu vs leu

Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin s?bum. Compare Romanian seu.

Noun

seu n (plural seuri)

1. animal fat, suet, tallow

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Old Catalan sou (feminine sua), from Latin suum, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos, from *swé (“self”).. The original stem was modified by analogy with meu.

The weak form son is also from Latin suum in an unstressed (monosyllabic) position.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sew/

Pronoun

seu (feminine seva or seua, masculine plural seus, feminine plural seves or seues)

1. his, her/hers, its
2. their, theirs
3. your, yours (alluding to vostè or vostès)

Usage notes

• When preceding a noun, seu is always preceded by the appropriate definite article.
• The third person possessive changes form for number and gender according to the number and gender of the item possessed, not the number and gender of the possessor.

Declension

See also

• son
• llur

Etymology 2

From Latin sedes.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?s?w/

Noun

seu f (plural seus)

1. seat

Synonyms

• central

Etymology 3

See seure.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?s?w/

Verb

seu

1. third-person singular present indicative form of seure
2. second-person singular imperative form of seure

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese seu, from an older sou (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria; it fell out of use during the 14th century), from Latin suus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?w], [?sew]

Pronoun

seu m (masculine singular seu, masculine plural seus, feminine singular súa, feminine plural súas)

1. (possessive) his, hers, its
2. (possessive) their

See also

• Appendix:Galician pronouns

References

• “sou” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “seu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “seu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “seu” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “seu” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese céu. Cognate with Kabuverdianu seu.

Noun

seu

1. sky

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese céu.

Noun

seu

1. sky

Latin

Etymology

Apocope of s?ve.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /seu?/, [s??u?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seu?/, [s?u?]

Conjunction

seu

1. or
2. either... or... (seu... seu...)

Descendants

• Romanian: sau

References

• seu in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• seu in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• seu in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• seu in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Ligurian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sø?/

Etymology 1

From Latin suus, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos, derived from *swé (“self”).

Adjective

seu (invariable)

1. his
2. her
3. its
4. their

Pronoun

seu (invariable)

1. Third-person singular possessive pronoun
   1. his
   2. hers
   3. its
2. Third-person plural possessive pronoun; theirs

Synonyms

• sò

See also

• mæ
• teu, tò
• nòstro
• vòstro

Etymology 2

From Latin soror, from Proto-Italic *swez?r, from Proto-Indo-European *swés?r.

Noun

seu f (invariable)

1. sister

See also

• fræ

Nyishi

Alternative forms

• su

Noun

seu

1. cattle, cow

References

• P. T. Abraham (2005) A Grammar of Nyishi Language?^[1], Delhi: Farsight Publishers and Distributors

Old French

Alternative forms

• seü (diaereses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

Verb

seu

1. past participle of savoir

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin suus.

Pronoun

seu m (plural seus, feminine sa, feminine plural sas)

1. third-person singular possessive pronoun: his, her, its

   • E?ta e como ?anta Maria liurou a Abade??a prenne q? adormecera anto ?eu Altar chorando.

     This one is about how Holy Mary acquitted the pregnant abbess who had fallen asleep crying in front of her altar.

Descendants

• Fala: sei
• Galician: seu
• Portuguese: seu

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /sew/
• Hyphenation: seu

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese seu, from Latin suus, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos, from *swé (“self”).

Pronoun

seu m (feminine sua, plural seus, feminine plural suas)

2. Third-person singular possessive pronoun. his; her; its.
4. Third-person plural possessive pronoun. their; theirs
6. Second-person singular possessive pronoun. your; yours (when using the second-person pronoun você)

8. Second-person plural possessive pronoun. your; yours (when using the second-person pronoun vocês)
10. you (used before epithets for emphasis)

Usage notes

Inflects according to the object’s (possessee's) gender and number. In the third person (singular and plural) the possessor can often be ambiguous in which case seu/sua/seus/suas gets replaced with dele (“his”) or dela (“hers”), placed after the possessee; or with deles (“theirs”) or delas for plural possessors.

Synonyms

• (your): teu, de você

See also

• ô

Etymology 2

From senhor, from Old Portuguese sennor, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative of senex (“old”), from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).

Noun

seu m (uncountable)

2. (familiar) mister (as a form of address)

Synonyms

• senhor

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin s?bum, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out”).

Noun

seu n (plural seuri)

1. animal fat
2. suet
3. tallow

See also

• soi, zoaie
• gr?sime

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Romanian leu (“lion”), from Latin le? (“lion”). Doublet of Leo, lev, lion, and Lyon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?.u?/

Noun

leu (plural lei)

1. The unit of currency of Romania, equal to one hundred bani.
2. The unit of currency of Moldova, equal to one hundred bani.

Translations

Anagrams

• -ule, Elu, Lue, lue, ule

Bourguignon

Alternative forms

• lei

Etymology

From Latin locus.

Noun

leu m (plural leus)

1. (Morvan) place

Catalan

Noun

leu m (plural leus)

1. leu (currency of Romania)
2. leu (currency of Moldova)

Further reading

• “leu” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “leu” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “leu” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Finnish

Noun

leu

1. leu (unit of currency of Romania and Moldova)

Declension

Synonyms

• lei

Anagrams

• lue

French

Etymology

From Romanian leu (“lion”). Doublet of lion.

Noun

leu m (plural lei)

1. leu (currency of Romania)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• élu, lue

Galician

Noun

leu m (plural lei)

1. leu

Verb

leu

1. Third-person singular (el, ela, vostede^?) preterite indicative of ler

Middle French

Verb

leu

1. past participle of lire

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin lupus.

Alternative forms

• lou, lu

Noun

leu m (oblique plural leus, nominative singular leus, nominative plural leu)

1. wolf (animal)

Descendants

• French: loup
• French: à la queue leu leu

Etymology 2

From Latin locus.

Noun

leu m (oblique plural leus, nominative singular leus, nominative plural leu)

1. place

Synonyms

• endroit

Derived terms

• Middle French: lieu
  • French: lieu

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?eu?/

Pronoun

leu

1. third-person plural accusative of la
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5^b20

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish lejos and French loin .

Adjective

leu

1. far

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?lew/

Etymology 1

Verb

leu

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) preterite indicative of ler

Etymology 2

From Romanian leu (“leu; lion”).

Noun

leu m (plural leus)

1. leu (currency unit of Romania and Moldova)

Romanian

Alternative forms

• ??? (post-1930s (Moldovan) Cyrillic spelling)

Etymology

Probably a later learned borrowing from Latin le? (“lion”) (around the 17th century), itself from Ancient Greek ???? (lé?n). If inherited from the nominative form, the expected result in Romanian would have been *ieu (as iepure from leporem); furthermore, all the other Romance cognates were derived from the accusative form le?nem or genitive le?nis (and some were borrowings themselves). Cf. also l?un and L?une(le) (“a river in Romania”), as well as leoaie.

For the name of the currency, it was probably based on the Dutch leeuwendaalder (“lion thaler/dollar”), which depicted a lion; cf. daalder, also German löwenthaler. This traces back to the 17th century, when the Dutch currency was used in the Romanian principalities. Another explanation gives the origin of this sense as a calque of Turkish arslan (“lion”), which was also used to refer to a type of currency with a lion on it; see also piastru (English piastre). Compare also the sense of currency with Bulgarian ??? (lev).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lew/

Noun

leu m (plural lei)

1. lion
2. leu (the Romanian unit of currency)

Declension

Quotations

Derived terms

• leoaic?
• leoaie

References

Slovak

Etymology

From Romanian leu (“lion”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?u?/
• Homophone: lev

Noun

leu m (nominative plural lei)

1. leu (currency of Romania)

Usage notes

This noun can also be undeclined.

Further reading

• leu in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Noun

leu m (plural lei)

1. leu

Walloon

Alternative forms

• leû

Etymology

From Old French leu, from Latin lupus.

Noun

leu m (plural leus)

1. wolf

References

• “Leu” in Laurent Remacle, Dictionnaire wallon-français (1852).
• “Leu” in Joseph Hubert, Dictionnaire wallon-liégeois et français (1853).