sequel

See also: séquel and Sequel

English

Etymology

From Middle English sequele, sequelle, sequile, from Middle French sequele, sequelle and its etymon, Latin sequēla, from sequī (“to follow”). Doublet of sequela.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːkwəl/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːkwəl

Noun

sequel (plural sequels)

1. (dated) The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath.
   • 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 75:

     Now here Chriſtian was worſe put to it then in his fight with Apollyon, as by the ſequel you ſhall ſee.

   • 1954 November, Frank Hewitt, “The First Decade of British 4-6-0 Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 747:

     In its sixty-year history here, some 4,170 engines of the 4-6-0 type have been constructed. This is the vast sequel of that bold experimental step of the Highland Railway in 1894.

2. (narratology) A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own.
3. Any text that continues on from another text.
   • 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 159:

     It greatly resembles the Rabbinical account of the origin of the Mazckeen, which the reader will meet in the sequel.

4. (mathematics) The remainder of the text; what follows. Used exclusively in the set phrase "in the sequel".
   • 1964, Hans Freudenthal, “Lie Groups in the Foundations of Geometry”, in Advances in Mathematics, volume 1, number 2, page 146:

     In the sequel we restrict ourselves to “nice” cases without going into details about the nicety conditions which have to be fulfilled (see, e.g., Freudenthal [1]).

5. (Scotland, historical) Thirlage.
6. (obsolete) A person's descendants.

Antonyms

• prequel

Coordinate terms

• midquel

Derived terms

• direct sequel
• distant sequel
• interquel
• midquel
• prequel
• pre-sequel
• requel
• sequel hook
• sequelitis
• sequelize
• spiritual sequel
• squeakquel
• threequel

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sekʷ- (3 c, 0 e)

Descendants

• → Catalan: seqüela (semantic loan)
• → Polish: sequel
• → Russian: си́квел (síkvel)

Translations

a narrative written after another narrative set in the same universe

• Bulgarian: продължение (bg) n (prodǎlženie)
• Catalan: seqüela (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 續集 / 续集 (zh) (xùjí)

• Dutch: vervolg (nl) n
• Esperanto: daŭrigo, sekvaĵo
• Finnish: jatko-osa (fi)
• French: suite (fr) f
• German: Fortsetzung (de) f, Folge (de) f
• Greek: συνέχεια (el) f (synécheia)
• Hebrew: המשך m (hemsheikh)
• Indonesian: sekuel (id)
• Italian: seguito (it) m
• Japanese: 続編 (ja) (ぞくへん, zokuhen), 続き (ja) (つづき, tsuzuki)
• Korean: 후편 (ko) (hupyeon), 속편 (ko) (sokpyeon)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: berdewamî (ku) f, dûmahî (ku) f

• Latin: consequentia narrativa f
• Malay: susulan (ms), sekuel
• Maori: paki ahumuri, whakahiku
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oppfølger m

  Nynorsk: oppfølgar m

• Polish: sequel (pl) m
• Portuguese: sequência (pt) f, continuação (pt) f, sequela (pt) f
• Russian: продолже́ние (ru) n (prodolžénije) (кни́ги, фи́льма), си́квел (ru) m (síkvɛl)
• Slovak: pokračovanie n, diel m, epizóda f
• Spanish: secuela (es) f
• Swedish: uppföljare (sv) c
• Tagalog: kasumunod

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sequel, from Middle English sequele, sequelle, sequile, from Middle French sequele, sequelle and its etymon, Latin sequēla, from sequī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.kwɛl/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ikwɛl
• Syllabification: se‧quel

Noun

sequel m inan

1. (narratology) sequel

Declension

Declension of sequel

	singular	plural
nominative	sequel	sequle
genitive	sequela/sequelu	sequli
dative	sequlowi	sequlom
accusative	sequel	sequle
instrumental	sequlem	sequlami
locative	sequlu	sequlach
vocative	sequlu	sequle

Further reading

• sequel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sequel in Polish dictionaries at PWN