different between sous vs sus

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su?z/

Noun

sous

1. plural of sou

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su?/

Noun

sous (plural sous)

1. Obsolete form of sou (“French coin”).
   • 1802, Laurence Sterne, A sentimental journey through France and Italy (page 28)

     The moment I cast my eyes upon him, I was predetermined not to give him a single sous […]

2. plural of sous

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su?/

Noun

sous (plural sous)

1. Short for sous-chef.
   • 2014, Michael Gibney, Sous Chef: 24 Hours in the Kitchen

     A chef always looks out for his sous chef; a sous is always “under” his chef's wing—guided, nurtured, cared for, long after the stoves are turned off and the aprons are hung up. While other cooks are apprenticed to the kitchen, the sous is the lieutenant, the executor of Chef's wishes.

Anagrams

• USOS, USOs

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch saus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sœu?s/

Noun

sous (plural souse, diminutive sousie)

1. sauce

Derived terms

• tamatiesous

Catalan

Noun

sous

1. plural of sou

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su/

Etymology 1

From Middle French soubs, soubz, from Old French sus, sos, suz, soz, sost, from Latin subtus, which is derived from Latin sub. Cognate to Italian sotto.

Preposition

sous

1. below, under

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

sous m

1. plural of sou
2. (slang) money

References

Further reading

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

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French source (“source”).

Noun

sous

1. source

Mirandese

Adjective

sous

1. masculine plural of sou

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French sus, sos, suz, soz, sost, from Latin subtus, from sub.

Preposition

sous

1. (Guernsey) below, under

Alternative forms

• souôs (Jersey)

Etymology 2

Noun

sous m pl

1. plural of sou
2. (Guernsey, plural only) money

Old Catalan

Etymology

From Latin su?s.

Adjective

sous

1. masculine plural of sou

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?s/
• Rhymes: -?s
• Homophone: suss

Etymology 1

Clipping of suspicion.

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.

Etymology 2

Clipping of suspicious.

Adjective

sus (comparative more sus, superlative most sus)

1. (slang) Suspicious; having suspicions or questions.
2. (slang) Suspicious; raising suspicions, 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 ...

Etymology 3

Clipping of suspended.

Adjective

sus (not comparable)

1. (music) Abbreviation of suspended.

See also

• sus chord

Anagrams

• U.S.S., USS, USs, us's

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sœs/

Noun

sus (plural susse, diminutive sussie)

1. sister (female sibling)

   Synonym: suster

Related terms

• suster

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• ãnsus, nsus, nsusu, susu

Etymology

From Late Latin s?sum, from Latin surs?m. Compare Romanian sus.

Adverb

sus

1. up

Antonyms

• ghios/nghios

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su?s/, [su??s]

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

Synonyms

• susen

Verb

sus

1. imperative of suse

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sus/, [?s?us?]
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: sus

Etymology

Shortening from Jeesus.

Interjection

sus

1. oh; used only in the expression shown in the example below

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy/
• Homophones: su, sue, suent, sues, sut, sût
• Rhymes: -y

Etymology 1

From Old French sus, from Vulgar Latin s?sum, from Latin s?rsum. Cognate to Italian su.

Adverb

sus

1. (dated) up

Derived terms

• en sus
• en sus de

Etymology 2

see savoir

Verb

sus

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

Further reading

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

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 ?? (hûs), Pali s?kara, English swine, sow.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

1. pig

   Synonyms: porcus, scrofa

Declension

Third-declension noun (irregular).

Derived terms

Descendants

• Romanian: sor (possibly)
• 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)
• sus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)?^[5], Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN

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

Pronunciation

Pronoun

sus

1. locative of son

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

sus

1. imperative of susa

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin subtus.

Alternative forms

• suz, souz, sos, sost

Preposition

sus

1. under; underneath

Descendants

• Middle French: soubs
  • French: sous
• Norman: souôs

Etymology 2

From Late Latin s?sum, from Latin s?rsum.

Preposition

sus

1. on; on top of; atop

Descendants

• French: sus
• Norman: sus

Polish

Etymology

From German Schuss, from Middle High German, from Old High German scuz, from Proto-Germanic *skutiz, from *skeutan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sus/

Noun

sus m inan

1. caper, jump, leap (long, quick jump)

Declension

Further reading

• sus in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• sus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Interjection

sus!

1. come on! (inducing courage or willpower)

Romanian

Etymology

From Late Latin s?sum, from Latin s?rsum.

Adverb

sus

1. up

Antonyms

• jos

See also

• deasupra
• peste

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sus/, [sus]

Determiner

sus pl (possessive)

1. plural of su; one's, his, her, its, their (with plural possessee)
2. (formal) Your (with plural possessee)

Related terms

Turkish

Verb

sus

1. second-person singular imperative of susmak

Zazaki

Noun

sus n

1. A plant used in drug production