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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French sou. Doublet of solidus and soldo.

Noun

sou (plural sous)

1. An old French copper coin equal to one twentieth of a livre or twelve deniers; one sou is to the livre as one shilling is to the pound.
2. (dated, slang) Cent; pocket money.
3. (dated) A thing of the smallest value; a whit; a jot.

   I do not care a sou for your excuses.

Anagrams

• -ous, OSU, USO, ous

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sœu/

Verb

sou

1. preterite of sal; would, should

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Late Latin soldus, from contraction of Latin solidus. Doublet of sòlid. Compare French sou.

Noun

sou m (plural sous)

1. salary, wage

Synonyms

• salari

Etymology 2

Verb

sou

1. second-person plural present indicative form of ser
2. second-person plural imperative form of ser

Further reading

• “sou” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Folopa

Noun

sou

1. Alternative form of so

References

• Karl James Franklin, Pacific Linguistics (1973, ?ISBN, page 130: Polopa so/sou woman, cf. DAR sou female animal but we woman.
• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 15: Boro, Suri, Tebera sou, Sopese šo

French

Etymology

From Old French, inherited from Late Latin soldus, from Latin solidus. Doublet of solide. See also the form sol, which kept the historical spelling from Old French, even if it came to be pronounced like sou.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su/
• Homophones: saoul, saouls, soul, soûl, souls, soûls, sous

Noun

sou m (plural sous)

1. (historical, numismatics) sou (old French coin)
2. (by extension, chiefly in the plural, colloquial) money; cash

3. (Quebec, Louisiana, colloquial) cent (one hundredth of a dollar)

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

• chelin
• livre

Descendants

• ? English: sou

Further reading

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

Haitian Creole

Preposition

sou

1. on
2. about, concerning

Iu Mien

Etymology

From Chinese ? (MC ???).

Noun

sou 

1. book

Japanese

Romanization

sou

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Leonese

Etymology

From Latin sum.

Verb

sou

1. first-person singular present indicative of sere

Lindu

Noun

sou

1. house; home

Livonian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish savu.

Noun

sou

1. smoke

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z??/ (basic form)
• IPA^(key): /zu/ (reduced)
• Rhymes: -??

Adverb

sou

1. Alternative form of esou

Mandarin

Romanization

sou (Zhuyin ???)

1. Nonstandard spelling of s?u.
2. Nonstandard spelling of s?u.
3. Nonstandard spelling of sòu.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Old Catalan

Etymology

From Latin suum.

Adjective

sou (feminine sua, masculine plural sous, feminine plural sues)

1. his, her, its, their

   Synonym: son

Descendants

• Catalan: seu

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• sô (nonstandard)

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?so(w)/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?sow/
• Rhymes: -ow

Verb

sou

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of ser

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• suu
• suo

Etymology

From Latin suus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sou/

Pronoun

sou (plural suos, feminine sua, feminine plural suas)

1. his, her, hers

Related terms

• meu
• tuu/tou/tuo
• nostru
• bostru/vostru
• issoro

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Southwestern Tai *su?? (“you (plural)”) (whence Thai ?? (s?u), Northern Thai ??, Isan ??, Lao ?? (s?), Lü ?? (?uu), Tai Dam ??, Shan ?? (s?u), Tai Nüa ??? (sú), Ahom ???????? (suu)).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /?ou??/
• Tone numbers: sou¹
• Hyphenation: sou

Pronoun

sou (Sawndip forms ???? or ? or ? or ? or ? or ? or ???? or ? or ?, old orthography sou)

1. you (plural)

See also

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English souse (“to salt pickle”) also a noun (“liquid for pickling,” “pickled pig parts”), from Old French sous (“preserved in salt”), from Frankish *sultija (“saltwater, brine”), from Proto-Germanic *sultij? (“saltwater, brine”). Cognate with Old Saxon sultia (“saltwater”), Old High German sulza (“brine”).

Noun

souse (plural souses)

1. Something kept or steeped in brine
   1. The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
      • 1848, Thomas Tusser, Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, page 58:

        And he that can rear up a pig in his house, / Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse.

      1. (US, Appalachia) Pickled scrapple.
      2. (Caribbean) Pickled or boiled ears and feet of a pig
   2. A pickle made with salt.
   3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
2. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
3. A person suffering from alcoholism.

Synonyms

• (person suffering from alcoholism): alcoholic, sot, suck-pint; See also Thesaurus:drunkard

See also

• (food): brawn, budin, haggis, head cheese, pudding, sausage, scrapple

Verb

souse (third-person singular simple present souses, present participle sousing, simple past and past participle soused)

1. (transitive) To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 2

     As she heard him sousing heartily in cold water, heard the eager scratch of the steel comb on the side of the bowl, as he wetted his hair, she closed her eyes in disgust.

2. (transitive) To steep in brine; to pickle.

Derived terms

• soused

Etymology 2

Obscure origin. Compare Middle German sûs (“noise”).

Noun

souse (plural souses)

1. The act of sousing, or swooping.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Book II Canto XI:

     Eft fierce retourning as a foulcon fayre, / That once hath failed of her souse full neare

2. A heavy blow.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Book IV Canto VIII

     With that his murdrous mace he vp did reare, / That seemed nought the souse thereof could beare,

Verb

souse (third-person singular simple present souses, present participle sousing, simple past and past participle soused)

1. (now dialectal, transitive) To strike, beat.
2. (now dialectal, intransitive) To fall heavily.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book III Canto IV:

     Him so transfixed she before her bore / Beyond his croupe, the length of all her launce; / Till, sadly soucing on the sandy shore, / He tombled on an heape, and wallowd in his gore.

   • 1697, Virgil, John Dryden (tr.), The works of Virgil translated into English verse by John Dryden, Æneis, IX:

     Thus on some silver swan or tim'rous hare / Jove's bird comes sowsing down from upper air

3. (obsolete, transitive) To pounce upon.
   • , Act V Scene II:

     [The gallant monarch] like an eagle o'er his eyrie towers, / To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Old French sous (plural of sout).

Noun

souse

1. (obsolete) A sou (the French coin).
2. (dated) A small amount.

Anagrams

• ouses