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Estonian

Etymology

From Russian туз (tuz).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtuːs/, [ˈtuːs]
  • Rhymes: -uːs
  • Hyphenation: tuus

Adjective

tuus (genitive tuusa, partitive tuusa, comparative tuusam, superlative kõige tuusam)

  1. (dated, slang) cool, awesome

Declension

More information Declension of (ÕS type 22i/külm, length gradation), singular ...

Noun

tuus (genitive tuusa, partitive tuusa)

  1. (card games, rare or uncommon) ace
    Synonym: äss
  2. (figurative, uncommon) an important figure, influential person

Declension

More information Declension of (ÕS type 22i/külm, length gradation), singular ...

References

  • tuus in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • tuus”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *towos.

Pronunciation

Determiner

tuus (feminine tua, neuter tuum); first/second-declension determiner, with locative

  1. (possessive) your (singular), thy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective, with locative.

More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

References

  • tuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tuus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • how are you getting on: quo loco res tuae sunt?
    • just as you wish: arbitratu, arbitrio tuo
    • I am sorry for you: tuam vicem doleo
    • remember me to your brother: nuntia fratri tuo salutem verbis meis (Fam. 7. 14)
    • your crop is still green, i.e. you are still far from your ambition: adhuc tua messis in herba est (proverb.)
    • allow me to say: pace tua dixerim or dicere liceat
    • allow me to say: bona (cum) venia tua dixerim
    • with perfect right: meo (tuo, suo) iure
    • (ambiguous) we expect a great deal from a man of your calibre: magna est exspectatio ingenii tui
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Sundanese

Adjective

tuus (Sundanese script ᮒᮥᮅᮞ᮪)

  1. slightly wet

Yucatec Maya

Pronunciation

Noun

tuus (plural tuusoʼob)

  1. lie

Verb

tuus (intransitive)

  1. to lie (say something untrue)
    • 2011, Marga Beatriz Aguilar Montejo, “U x-waáyilo’ob X-Letra”, in T’aan: Narrativa, Poesía y Dramaturgia, Secretaría de Educación del Estado de Yucatán, page 82:
      Chéen ka tuus, wa yan u paalale’ min ts’o’ok in wojeltike’.
      You are lying, if he had children, I would already know.

Conjugation

More information singular, plural ...

References

  • Gómez Navarrete, Javier Abelardo (2009), Diccionario Introductorio Español-Maya, Maya-Español (in Spanish), Chetumal: Universidad de Quintana Roo, archived from the original on 5 February 2023, page 174:TUUS
  • Yoshida, Shigeto (2009), Diccionario de la conjugación de verbos en el maya yucateco actual (in Spanish), Sendai: Tohoku University, page 82:TUUS

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