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seu

seu is a Latin form of sive, meaning “or if; whether ... or”. It is the conjunction.

Found 950 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.23.3: Helvetii, seu quod timore perterritos Romanos discedere a se existimarent, eo magis quod pridie superioribus locis occupati …

Vergil, Georgics 3.49: Seu quis Olympiacae miratus praemia palmae

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.