suite
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French suite. See also the doublet suit.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →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.
HyponymsEdit
- (computing): office suite, test suite
- (music): dance suite
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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ReferencesEdit
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
suite f (plural suites)
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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 termsEdit
- suite à (“following, after”)
- à la suite
- de suite
- donner suite à
- ensuite
- tout de suite
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “suite” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
AnagramsEdit
IrishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- suidhte (obsolete)
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
suite
SynonymsEdit
- (fixed, secured): fosaitheach, feistithe, daingnithe
- (mounted): gléasta
- (fast): ceangailte
NounEdit
suite
ParticipleEdit
suite
- past participle of suigh
MutationEdit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
suite | shuite after an, tsuite |
not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
LatinEdit
VerbEdit
suite
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
suite
- Alternative form of sute
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
suite m (definite singular suiten, indefinite plural suiter, definite plural suitene)
ReferencesEdit
- “suite” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
suite m (definite singular suiten, indefinite plural suitar, definite plural suitane)
ReferencesEdit
- “suite” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
NounEdit
suite f (oblique plural suites, nominative singular suite, nominative plural suites)
- pursuit (act of pursuing)
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- 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
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
suite f (plural suites)
- suite (rooms, hotel)
Further readingEdit
- “suite” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.