seu

From Latin sēbum. Compare Romanian seu.

seu n (plural seuri)

1. animal fat, suet, tallow

Inherited from Old Catalan sou (feminine sua), from Latin suum, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos, from *swé (“self”). The original stem was modified by analogy with meu.

The weak form son is also from Latin suum in an unstressed (monosyllabic) position.

• sou (Alghero)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsew]

seu (feminine seva or seua, masculine plural seus, feminine plural seves or seues)

1. his, her/hers, its
2. their, theirs
3. your, yours (alluding to vostè or vostès)

• When preceding a noun, seu is always preceded by the appropriate definite article.
• The third person possessive changes form for number and gender according to the number and gender of the item possessed, not the number and gender of the possessor.

• son
• llur

Inherited from Latin sēdem.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsɛw]

seu f (plural seus)

1. seat (of power or authority), center

   Synonym: central

2. (Christianity) seat (of a bishop or pope), see
3. (Christianity) cathedral

Inherited from Old Catalan sèu, from Latin sēbum (“tallow, grease; suet”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out”).

• sèu (pre-2016 spelling)

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsɛw]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈsəw]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsew]

seu m (plural seus)

1. suet
2. tallow
3. sebum

• “seu” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsɛw]

seu

1. inflection of seure:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• séu (pre-2016 spelling)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsew]

seu

1. (colloquial Northern, Alghero) second-person plural present indicative of ser

• (Rémois) suil

Inherited from Latin *solium.

IPA^(key): /sø/

seu m (plural seus)

1. (Troyen) threshold

• Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[2] (in French), Troyes

From (compare with Samoan seu (“to ward off”), Tongan heu (“to ward off, to stir, to rake”), Tahitian heu, Maori heu (“to separate, to clear”)).

seu (seseu; seuta)

1. to scratch
2. to paw, to dig the ground
3. to scoop

• Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “seu”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
• Gatty, Ronald (2009) “seu, seuta”, in Fijian-English Dictionary, Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 226

From Old Galician-Portuguese seu, from an older sou (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria; it fell out of use during the 14th century), from Latin suus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛw], [ˈsew]

seu m (masculine singular seu, masculine plural seus, feminine singular súa, feminine plural súas)

1. (possessive) his, hers, its
2. (possessive) their

• Appendix:Galician pronouns

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “sou”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “seu”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “seu”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “seu”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “seu”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Portuguese céu. Cognate with Kabuverdianu seu.

seu

1. sky

From Portuguese céu.

seu

1. sky

Apocope of sīve.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /seu̯/, [s̠ɛu̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seu̯/, [sɛːu̯]

seu

1. or
2. either... or... (seu... seu...)

• Romanian: sau

• “seu”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “seu”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• seu in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “seu”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.

• IPA^(key): /søː/

From Latin suus, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos, derived from *swé (“self”).

-

1. his
2. her
3. its
4. their

seu (invariable)

1. Third-person singular possessive pronoun
   1. his
   2. hers
   3. its
2. Third-person plural possessive pronoun; theirs

• sò

• mæ
• teu, tò
• nòstro
• vòstro

From Latin soror, from Proto-Italic *swezōr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

seu f (invariable)

1. sister

• fræ

• su

seu

1. cattle, cow

• P. T. Abraham (2005) A Grammar of Nyishi Language‎^[3], Delhi: Farsight Publishers and Distributors

• seü (diaereses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

seu

1. past participle of savoir

• Middle French: sceu
  • French: su

From Latin suus.

• IPA^(key): /sɛu̯/

seu m (plural seus, feminine sa, feminine plural sas)

1. third-person singular possessive pronoun: his, her, its
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 7 (facsimile):

     Eſta e como ſanta Maria liurou a Abadeſſa prenne q̇ adormecera anto ſeu Altar chorando.

     This one is about how Holy Mary acquitted the pregnant abbess who had fallen asleep crying in front of her altar.

• Fala: sei
• Galician: seu
• Portuguese: seu

• Hyphenation: seu

From Old Galician-Portuguese seu, sou, from Latin suus, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos, from *swé (“self”).

seu (feminine sua, masculine plural seus, feminine plural suas)

2. Third-person singular possessive pronoun. his; her; its
   • 2000, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Prisioneiro de Azkaban [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban] (Harry Potter; 3), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 240:

     Era difícil dizer se a professora os ouvira, pois seu rosto estava oculto pelas sombras.

     It was difficult to tell whether the teacher had heard them, because her face was hidden by the shadows.

   • 2003, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix] (Harry Potter; 5), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 417:

     Então o sorriso reapareceu em seu rosto [...]

     Then the smile reappeared in his face [...]

   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 135:

     [...] seu vocabulário tinha apenas cinco palavras [...]

     [...] his vocabulary had only five words [...]

4. Third-person plural possessive pronoun. their; theirs
6. Second-person singular possessive pronoun. your; yours (when using the second-person pronoun você)

   Posso ficar em sua casa?

   Can I stay at your house?

8. Second-person plural possessive pronoun. your; yours (when using the second-person pronoun vocês)
10. you (used before epithets for emphasis)

    Seu idiota!

    You idiot! (addressing one man)

    Suas idiotas.

    You idiots! (addressing a group of women)

• Inflects according to the object’s (possessee's) gender and number. In the third person (singular and plural) the possessor can often be ambiguous in which case seu/sua/seus/suas gets replaced with dele (“his”) or dela (“hers”), placed after the possessee; or with deles (“theirs”) or delas for plural possessors.

• (your): teu, de você

• ô

			Possessee
			Singular		Plural
			Masculine	Feminine	Masculine	Feminine
Possessor	Singular	First person	meu	minha	meus	minhas
		Second person	teu	tua	teus	tuas
		Third person	seu	sua	seus	suas
	Plural	First person	nosso	nossa	nossos	nossas
		Second person	vosso	vossa	vossos	vossas
		Third person	seu	sua	seus	suas
See also: Appendix:Possessive#Portuguese

From senhor, from Old Galician-Portuguese sennor, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative of senex (“old”), from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).

seu m (uncountable)

2. (Brazil, familiar) mister (as a form of address)

   Synonyms: senhor, (Southern Portugal) tio

   Estive com o seu Luís ontem.

   I was with Mr. Luís yesterday.

Inherited from Latin sēbum, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out”).

seu n (plural seuri)

1. animal fat
2. suet
3. tallow

• soi, zoaie
• grăsime

• IPA^(key): [sew]

seu

1. wham, pow, snap, bam

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sew”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon