sudo

Originally understood as a blend of superuser +‎ do, now has evolved to be an abbreviation of substitute user, do.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuː.duː/, (proscribed, spelling pronunciation) /ˈsuː.doʊ/, (proscribed, spelling pronunciation) /ˈsuː.dəʊ/

sudo (uncountable)

1. (computing) A Unix command that allows a user to run a program with the security privileges of another user.

sudo (third-person singular simple present sudos, present participle sudoing, simple past and past participle sudoed)

1. (computing) To invoke such a command.

sudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of sudar

From English south, French sud, German Süden, Italian sud.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsudo/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -udo
• Hyphenation: su‧do

sudo (uncountable, accusative sudon)

1. south

• S, Su (abbreviation)

• nordo (“north”)

• suda (“southern”)
• sudano (“southerner”)

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Borrowed from Esperanto sudo, English south, French sud, German Süden, Italian sud, Spanish sur, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsudo/

sudo (uncountable)

1. (geography) south

   Antonym: nordo

• S (abbreviation)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈsu.do/
• Rhymes: -udo
• Hyphenation: sù‧do

sudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of sudare

From Proto-Indo-European *sweyd- (“to sweat”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsuː.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsuː.d̪o]

sūdō (present infinitive sūdāre, perfect active sūdāvī, supine sūdātum); first conjugation

1. to sweat, perspire

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• sūdārium

• sūdor

• “sudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• schuldà (Rumantsch Grischun)
• schuldau (Sursilvan)
• suldo (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
• schuldo (Sutsilvan)
• sudà (Vallader)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

sudo m (plural sudos)

1. (Puter) soldier

• IPA^(key): /ˈsudo/ [ˈsu.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -udo
• Syllabification: su‧do

sudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of sudar

From Proto-North Halmahera, ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *suʀuq, from Proto-Austronesian *suʀuq (“to call on a person to do something”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu.do/

sudo

1. (transitive) to ask, to order

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