sudo

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

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

• nordo (“north”)

• sudano (“southerner”)

(compass points) kompasdirektoj;

nordokcidento norduesto	nordo	nordoriento nordeosto
okcidento uesto		oriento eosto
sudokcidento suduesto	sudo	sudoriento sudeosto

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

• 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) IPA^(key): /ˈsuː.doː/, [ˈs̠uːd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.do/, [ˈsuːd̪o]

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