sou

Borrowed from French sou. Doublet of solidus and soldo.

sou (plural sous)

1. (historical) 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.
   • 1918 February (date written)​, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 73:

     He is grey, flat-footed and withered, with long, brittle nails that set your nerves on edge while he scrapes up your two sous.

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.

• -ous, OSU, USO, ous

• IPA^(key): /sœu/

sou

1. preterite of sal; would, should

(noun)

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔw/
• Rhymes: -ɔw

(verb, pronoun)

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈsow/
• Rhymes: -ow

From Old Catalan sou~sol, from Late Latin soldus, contraction of Latin solĭdus. Doublet of sòlid. Compare French sou.

sou m (plural sous)

1. salary, wage

   tinc un sou de 1200 euros ― I have a salary of 1200 euros

• salari

sou

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

From Old Catalan sou (feminine sua), from Latin suum, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos, from *swé (“self”).

• seu (non-Algherese dialects)

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

1. (Alghero) your, yours (singular, alluding to vostè)
2. (Alghero) his, her/hers, its
3. (Alghero, archaic, rare) their, theirs

In contemporary Algherese, this word primarily gives reference to vostè. Only rarely does it give reference to multiple possessors, this use being archaic.

• son

• “sou (2)”, in Diccionari d'Alguerés‎, accessed 17 May 2022
• El Català de l'Alguer : un model d'àmbit restringit, Barcelona, 2003, →ISBN, page 30

• “sou” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sou” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

sou

1. Alternative form of so

• 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

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.

• IPA^(key): /su/

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• Homophones: saoul, saouls, soul, soûl, souls, soûls, sous

sou m (plural sous)

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

   Tu peux me prêter des sous ? ― Can you lend me some cash?

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

   Ça va être six piastres et vingt-cinq sous, s'il te plaît. ― That'll be six dollars and twenty-five cents, please.

• → English: sou

• chelin
• livre

• “sou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

sou

1. on
2. about, concerning
   • 2019 March 19, “Rankont ann Itali ant Anvwaye Espesyal Etazini ak Larisi sou Kriz Venezuela a”, in Lavwadlamerik‎:

     Anvwaye espesyal Etazini pou Venezuela, Elliot Abrams, ak vis-minis afè etranjè Larisi, Sergei Ryabkov, ap fè reyinyon nan vil Wòm ann Itali pou yo pale sou sityasyon Venezuela kap agrave.”

     American Special Envoy for Venezuela Elliot Abrams and Russian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov are meeting in the city of Rome, Italy to talk about "the worsening situation in Venezuela."

From Chinese 書 (MC ɕɨʌ). Compare Bu-Nao Bunu hswb.

• IPA^(key): /səu˧/

sou 

1. book

sou

1. Rōmaji transcription of そう

From Latin sum.

sou

1. first-person singular present indicative of sere

sou

1. house; home

From Proto-Finnic *savu, from Proto-Finno-Permic *sawe. Cognates include Finnish savu.

sou

1. smoke

From French saoul (“drunk”).

• IPA^(key): /su/

sou

1. drunk.

   Synonyms: chak, ho, piké

From French sou (“sou, cent”).

• IPA^(key): /su/

sou

1. cent.

   Synonym: pinné

• IPA^(key): /zəʊ/ (basic form)
• IPA^(key): /zu/ (reduced)
• Rhymes: -əʊ

sou

1. Alternative form of esou

sou (sou⁵／sou⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄙㄡ)

1. Nonstandard spelling of sōu.
2. Nonstandard spelling of sǒu.
3. Nonstandard spelling of sòu.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

From Latin suum.

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

1. his, her, its, their

   Synonym: son

• Catalan: seu

• sô (Brazil, nonstandard)

Inherited from Latin sum (“I am”). Cognate with Galician son, Spanish soy, Italian sono, French suis, and Romanian sunt.

• Rhymes: -ow, -o
• Hyphenation: sou

sou

1. first-person singular present indicative of ser
   • 2007, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e as Relíquias da Morte [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows] (Harry Potter; 7), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 589:

     Sou excepcionalmente famoso.

     I am exceptionally famous.

Borrowed from French sou.

sou n (plural souuri)

1. (coin) sou

• suu
• suo

From Latin suus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsou/

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

1. his, her, hers

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsou/

sou (feminine singular soa, masculine and feminine plural soi)

1. Alternative form of sóiu

sou m (feminine singular soa, masculine and feminine plural soi)

1. Alternative form of sóiu

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

• IPA^(key): /ˈso.u/

sou

1. medicine

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Likely cognate with Ternate sou (“medicine”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̪o.u/

sou

1. magic, sorcery

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics (as sow)

From Proto-Southwestern Tai *suːᴬ (“you (plural)”) (whence Thai สู (sǔu), Northern Thai ᩈᩪ, Isan สู, Lao ສູ (sū), Lü ᦉᦴ (ṡuu), Tai Dam ꪎꪴ, Shan သူ (sǔu), Tai Nüa ᥔᥧᥴ (sú), Ahom 𑜏𑜥 (sū)).

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /θou˨˦/
• Tone numbers: sou¹
• Hyphenation: sou

sou (Sawndip forms 𠈅 or 修 or 收 or 苏 or 唆 or 数 or 𠉑 or 叟 or 傃, 1957–1982 spelling sou)

1. you (plural)