sue

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

• IPA^(key): /suː/

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: Sioux, sou, Su, Sue

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 action.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of R. H. Dana, Jr to this entry?)

5. (obsolete, transitive) To court.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To follow.
   • 1485 July 31, Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London]: […] [by William Caxton], OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: Published by David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:

     , Bk.XIII, Ch.iv:

     And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, III.iv:

     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.

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:sue.

• sue for peace

• SEU, UEs, ues, use

• IPA^(key): /suːɛ/, /suːeɪ/

sue

1. small

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

sue

1. first-person singular present indicative of suer
2. third-person singular present indicative of suer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of suer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of suer
5. second-person singular imperative of suer
6. Feminine of past participle of savoir

• eus, use, usé

From Latin suae

sue

1. his, her, its; plural of sua

sue

1. Rōmaji transcription of すえ

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.e/, [ˈsʊ.ɛ]

sue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of suō

sue

1. ablative singular of sūs

sue

1. Alternative form of sowe

sue

1. First-person singular (eu) affirmative imperative of suar
2. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of suar
3. First-person singular (eu) negative imperative of suar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of suar
5. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of suar
6. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of suar

sue m (possessive) (Feminine: soje)

1. his