sou

Borrowed from French sou. Doublet of solidus and soldo.

sou (plural sous)

1. An old French copper coin.
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

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

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Late Latin soldus, from contraction of Latin solidus. Doublet of sòlid.

sou m (plural sous)

1. salary, wage

• salari

sou

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

• “sou” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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.

• chelin
• livre

• “sou” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

sou

1. on
2. about, concerning

sou

1. Rōmaji transcription of そう

sou

1. house; home

Akin to Finnish savu.

sou

1. smoke

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

sou

1. Alternative form of esou

sou (Zhuyin ˙ㄙㄡ)

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

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

From Latin suum.

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

1. his, her, its, their

• son

• Catalan: seu

• sô (nonstandard)

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈso(w)/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsow/

sou

1. first-person singular (eu) 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.

Proto-Tai *su.A

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

sou (old orthography sou, Sawndip forms 𠈅, 修, 收, 苏, 唆, 数, 𠉑, 叟, 傃)

1. you (plural)