# sue
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English seuen, sewen, siwen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suer, siwer et al. and Old French sivre (“to follow after”) (modern French suivre), from Vulgar Latin *sequere (“to follow”), from Latin sequi. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Doublet of segue. Related to suit.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /suː/, (conservative) /sjuː/, (chiefly Wales) /sɪu̯/
* Audio (US); [sɨu̯]:(file)
* Rhymes: -uː
* Homophones: Sioux, sou, Su, Sue

### Verb

sue (third-person singular simple present sues, present participle suing, simple past and past participle sued)
* (transitive) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal (civil) action.
    sue someone for selling a faulty product
    I plan to sue you for everything you have.
** 1897, Warren Bert Kimberly, “W. Horgan”, in History of West Australia:He was sued 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 by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
* (transitive, falconry, of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.).
* (transitive, nautical) To leave high and dry on shore.
    to sue a ship
* (obsolete, transitive) To court.
* (obsolete, transitive) To follow.
** 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum iv”, in, book XIII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 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.’(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd, / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.

#### Quotations

* For quotations using this term, see Citations:sue.

#### Derived terms

* sue for peace
* sue me
* sue one's livery
* sue out

#### Translations
### See also

* fig-sue

### References

* ↑ 1841, Richard Henry Dana Jr., The Seaman's Friend

### Anagrams

* ESU, EUS, SEU, UEs, ues, use

## Ewe
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /suːɛ/, /suːeɪ/

### Adjective

sue
* small

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sy/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: su, suent, sues, sus, sut, sût
* Rhymes: -y

### Verb

sue
* inflection of suer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative
* feminine singular past participle of savoir

### Anagrams

* eus, use, usé

## Galician
### Verb

sue
* (reintegrationist norm) inflection of suar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin suae.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsu.e/
* Rhymes: -ue
* Hyphenation: sù‧e

### Adjective

sue
* plural of sua

### Anagrams

* use

## Japanese
### Romanization

sue
* Rōmaji transcription of すえ

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈsu.e/, [ˈs̠uɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈsu.e/, [ˈsuːe]

### Verb

sue
* second-person singular present active imperative of suō

### Noun

sue
* ablative singular of sūs

## Middle English
### Noun

sue
* Alternative form of sowe

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsu.i/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsu.i/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈsu.e/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsu.ɨ/
* Hyphenation: su‧e

### Verb

sue
* inflection of suar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Sardinian
### Etymology

Inherited from Classical Latin sūs, suem, from Proto-Italic *sūs, derived from Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig, hog, swine”). Compare Nuorese sughe, Sassarese sua (dialectal sui).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsue/

### Noun

sue f (plural sues) (Logudorese)
* sow (female pig)
    Synonyms: lòvia, tzotza

#### See also

* berre
* porcu

### References

* Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
* Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “súe”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

## Tarantino
### Pronoun

sue m (possessive, feminine soje)
* his