sun.

Brit.

/suː/, U.S.

/su/

Forms: 1500s– su, 1600s sue.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: Middle French su.

Etymology: < Middle French su (in a single attestation, 1558 in the passage translated in quot. 1568, in which it is unclear whether the word is intended to refer to the animal or the skins), further etymology uncertain; perhaps ultimately < a language of Patagonia (compare Tehuelche soc robe of skins, and the related Selknam so? ripped leather, perhaps misunderstood as denoting the animal from which the skins were taken). Compare slightly later succarath n.In the Middle French text translated in quot. 1568, it is unclear whether the relative clause refers to the animal or the skins.

Now historical.

A carnivorous quadruped described as having a long hairy tail, and said to carry its young upon its back.This animal has sometimes been identified with a ground sloth.

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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > miscellaneous types of

calesc1300

yalec1425

tiger1481

su1568

succarath1594

rhinocerot1613

bunyip1848

bandersnatch1871

Omophore1871

taotie1915

pushmi-pullyu1922

shmoo1948

kaiju1972

1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde lvi. f. 88^v The inhabitants are clothed with the skynne of a certaine beast named in their speach Su [Fr. qu'ils nomment en leur langue, Su], which is as much to say, as Water, for bicause (to my iudgement) that this beast for the most part remaineth in the waters and flouds.

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. iii Sue, a most cruell fierce beast, carrying her young vpon her backe to shadow them from the heat with her huge taile.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. x. 212/2 He beareth Argent; a Sue Sable.

1749 Universal Mag. Dec. 250/2 When it finds itself in one of these pits, the Su, either through rage or generosity, kills its own whelps, and sets up a most horrible yelling, till the huntsmen kill it with their darts.

1890 J. Ashton Curious Creatures Zool. 163 Topsell mentions a fearful beast called the Su.

1996 ISC Newslet. (Internat. Soc. Cryptozool.) 12 No. 1. 3/3 Another account related how the Indians dug pits to trap the su, and then kill them with arrows. All of this pointed at the real possibility of surviving ground sloths.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

SU n. Physics special unitary (sc. group): used with following numeral denoting the number of rows and of columns in the matrices that can be used to represent it, as SU(3): cf. special adj.

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1955 B. Higman Appl. Group-theoret. & Matrix Methods xii. 175 (table) Special unitary [matrix group]SU(n).

1967 G. G. Hall Appl. Group Theory vi. 84 SU(n). The special unitary group is the subgroup of U(n) whose matrices have a determinant of unity.

1977 Nature 4 Aug. 469/1 It provides a classification of a totally different nature to the canonical isospin, strangeness (SU(2) and SU(3)), beloved of group theorists which classifies objects of the same spin.

单词	su
释义	sun. Brit. /suː/, U.S. /su/ Forms: 1500s– su, 1600s sue. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: Middle French su. Etymology: < Middle French su (in a single attestation, 1558 in the passage translated in quot. 1568, in which it is unclear whether the word is intended to refer to the animal or the skins), further etymology uncertain; perhaps ultimately < a language of Patagonia (compare Tehuelche soc robe of skins, and the related Selknam so? ripped leather, perhaps misunderstood as denoting the animal from which the skins were taken). Compare slightly later succarath n.In the Middle French text translated in quot. 1568, it is unclear whether the relative clause refers to the animal or the skins. Now historical. A carnivorous quadruped described as having a long hairy tail, and said to carry its young upon its back.This animal has sometimes been identified with a ground sloth. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > miscellaneous types of calesc1300 yalec1425 tiger1481 su1568 succarath1594 rhinocerot1613 bunyip1848 bandersnatch1871 Omophore1871 taotie1915 pushmi-pullyu1922 shmoo1948 kaiju1972 1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde lvi. f. 88^v The inhabitants are clothed with the skynne of a certaine beast named in their speach Su [Fr. qu'ils nomment en leur langue, Su], which is as much to say, as Water, for bicause (to my iudgement) that this beast for the most part remaineth in the waters and flouds. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. iii Sue, a most cruell fierce beast, carrying her young vpon her backe to shadow them from the heat with her huge taile. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. x. 212/2 He beareth Argent; a Sue Sable. 1749 Universal Mag. Dec. 250/2 When it finds itself in one of these pits, the Su, either through rage or generosity, kills its own whelps, and sets up a most horrible yelling, till the huntsmen kill it with their darts. 1890 J. Ashton Curious Creatures Zool. 163 Topsell mentions a fearful beast called the Su. 1996 ISC Newslet. (Internat. Soc. Cryptozool.) 12 No. 1. 3/3 Another account related how the Indians dug pits to trap the su, and then kill them with arrows. All of this pointed at the real possibility of surviving ground sloths. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmas SU SU n. Physics special unitary (sc. group): used with following numeral denoting the number of rows and of columns in the matrices that can be used to represent it, as SU(3): cf. special adj. ΚΠ 1955 B. Higman Appl. Group-theoret. & Matrix Methods xii. 175 (table) Special unitary [matrix group]SU(n). 1967 G. G. Hall Appl. Group Theory vi. 84 SU(n). The special unitary group is the subgroup of U(n) whose matrices have a determinant of unity. 1977 Nature 4 Aug. 469/1 It provides a classification of a totally different nature to the canonical isospin, strangeness (SU(2) and SU(3)), beloved of group theorists which classifies objects of the same spin. extracted from Sn.¹ < n.1568 as lemmas
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