SUEとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 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.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (yod-dropping) IPA: /suː/
  • (yod-coalescence) IPA: /ʃuː/
  • (non-yod-dropping, non-yod-coalescence, conservative) IPA: /sjuː/
• (chiefly Wales) IPA: /sɪu̯/
• 韻: -uː
• 異形同音異義語: Sioux, sou, Su, Sue

動詞

sue (third-person singular simple present sues, present participle suing, simple past and past participle sued)

1. (transitive) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal (civil) action.

   Synonym: implead

   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.

2. (ambitransitive) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.

   The king of Bimsa sued for peace after Nynal's armies overran his territory; he knew any further resistance would only harm the common people.

3. (transitive, falconry, of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.).
4. (transitive, nautical) To leave high and dry on shore.

   to sue a ship

5. (obsolete, transitive) To court.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To follow.
   • 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum iv”, in [Le Morte Darthur], 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.’

     And the old knight said to the young knight, 'Sir, follow me'.

   • 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.

引用

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

派生語

関連する語

参考

• fig-sue

参照

アナグラム

• ESU, EUS, SEU, UEs, ues, use

動詞

sue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of suō

名詞

sue

1. ablative singular of sūs