sequuntur

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sequuntur (“they follow”), third-person plural form of sequor (“I follow”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɛˈkwʊntʊə/

Noun

sequuntur

1. plural of sequitur
   • 1999 October 23, Paddy O’Connolly (username), “By What Authority Did Dr. Death Nuke Coos Bay????”, in sci.engr.coastal‎^[1] (Usenet):

     To the north is where the shipwreck occurred. So it takes a stretch of imagination to figure those statutes (et sequuntur) authorize the governor to practice napalming shipwrecks floundering half-mired on the sand spit slightly north of Coos Bay.

Related terms

• mobilia sequuntur personam
• non sequuntur

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /seˈkʷun.tur/, [s̠ɛˈkʊn̪t̪ʊr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈkwun.tur/, [seˈkwun̪t̪ur]

Verb

sequuntur

1. third-person plural present active indicative of sequor