suite
English
Etymology
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Borrowed from French suite. See also the doublet suit.
Pronunciation
Noun
suite (plural suites)
- A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage
- the ambassador's suite
- A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together
- a suite of rooms
- a suite of minerals
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
- Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess[1]:
- The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].
- A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.
- The Presidential suite is well appointed and allows for good security.
- (music) A musical form, popular before the time of the sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude.
- (music) An excerpt of instrumental music from a larger work that contains other elements besides the music; for example, the Nutcracker Suite is the music (but not the dancing) from the ballet The Nutcracker, and the Carmen Suite is the instrumental music (but not the singing and dancing) from the opera Carmen.
- (computing) A group of related computer programs distributed together.
Hyponyms
- (computing): office suite, test suite
- (music): dance suite
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Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
suite f (plural suites)
French
Etymology
From Old French suite, from earlier siute, from Vulgar Latin *sequita, (instead of classical secūta), as the feminine past participle of *sequere, from Latin sequor, sequi.
Pronunciation
Noun
suite f (plural suites)
- result
- sequel
- next step, next steps, that which follows, remainder, rest
- (poker) straight
- (mathematics) sequence
- suite (group of connected rooms)
Derived terms
- à la suite
- de suite
- donner suite à
- ensuite
- suite à (“following, after”)
- tout de suite
Related terms
Further reading
- “suite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Irish
Alternative forms
- suidhte (obsolete)
Pronunciation
Adjective
suite
Synonyms
- (fixed, secured): fosaitheach, feistithe, daingnithe
- (mounted): gléasta
- (fast): ceangailte
Noun
suite
Participle
suite
- past participle of suigh
Mutation
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suite | shuite after an, tsuite |
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Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) suite
Middle English
Noun
suite
- Alternative form of sute
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
suite m (definite singular suiten, indefinite plural suiter, definite plural suitene)
References
- “suite” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
suite m (definite singular suiten, indefinite plural suitar, definite plural suitane)
References
- “suite” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From metathesis of earlier siute, sieute from Vulgar Latin *sequita, (instead of classical secūta), as the feminine past participle of *sequere, from Latin sequor, sequi.
Noun
suite oblique singular, f (oblique plural suites, nominative singular suite, nominative plural suites)
- pursuit (act of pursuing)
Related terms
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (sieute)
- siute on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Spanish
Etymology
Noun
suite f (plural suites)
- suite (rooms, hotel)
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