suite

See also: Suite, suit, and suíte

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French suite. See also the doublet suit.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /swiːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt
• Homophone: sweet
• Hyphenation: suite

Noun

suite (plural suites)

1. A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage

   the ambassador's suite

2. 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, […].

3. 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.

4. (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.
5. (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.
6. (computing) A group of related computer programs distributed together.

Hyponyms

• (computing): office suite, test suite
• (music): dance suite

Related terms

• ensuite

Translations

retinue or company of attendants

• Armenian: շքախումբ (hy) (škʿaxumb)
• Catalan: seguici (ca) m
• Finnish: seurue (fi)
• French: suite (fr) f
• Georgian: ამალა (amala)
• Hungarian: kíséret (hu)

• Irish: cóisir f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: suite m

  Nynorsk: suite m

• Russian: сви́та (ru) f (svíta)

connected series or succession of objects

• Dutch: reeks (nl)
• Finnish: sarja (fi)
• French: suite (fr) f
• Georgian: ნაკრები (naḳrebi)

• Greek: σουίτα (el) f (souíta)
• Portuguese: conjunto (pt) m, leque (pt) m, grupo (pt) m
• Russian: набо́р (ru) m (nabór), компле́кт (ru) m (komplékt), гарниту́р (ru) m (garnitúr) (furniture, clothes)
• Swedish: svit (sv) c

group of connected rooms

• Catalan: suite (ca) f
• Czech: apartmá n
• Dutch: suite (nl)
• Finnish: sviitti (fi)
• French: suite (fr) f
• German: Suite (de) f
• Greek: σουίτα (el) f (souíta)
• Hungarian: lakosztály (hu)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: suite m

  Nynorsk: suite m

• Persian: سوئیت‎ (suit)
• Portuguese: suíte (pt) f
• Russian: анфила́да (ru) f (anfiláda)
• Spanish: secuta (es) f
• Swedish: svit (sv) c

musical form pre-dating the sonata

• Catalan: suite (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 組曲 (zh), 组曲 (zh) (zǔqū)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: sarja (fi), sarjateos
• French: suite (fr) f
• German: Suite (de) f
• Greek: σουίτα (el) f (souíta)
• Hungarian: szvit (hu)
• Italian: please add this translation if you can

• Japanese: 組曲 (くみきょく, kumikyoku)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: suite m

  Nynorsk: suite m

• Polish: suita (pl) f
• Portuguese: suíte (pt) f
• Russian: сюи́та (ru) f (sjuíta)
• Spanish: secuta (es)
• Swedish: svit (sv) c
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

selection of music from a larger work

• Catalan: suite (ca)
• Dutch: suite (nl)
• Finnish: sarja (fi)
• French: suite (fr) f
• German: Suite (de) f
• Greek: σουίτα (el) f (souíta)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: suite m

  Nynorsk: suite m

• Russian: сюи́та (ru) f (sjuíta)
• Spanish: secuta (es) f
• Ukrainian: сюї́та f (sjujíta)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} svit (sv) (3)

References

• suite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Stuie, Tieus, etuis, use it, étuis

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French suite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʋi.tə/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: sui‧te
• Rhymes: -itə

Noun

suite f (plural suites)

1. suite (group of interconnected rooms)
2. (music) suite (music piece)

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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

• IPA^(key): /sɥit/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

suite f (plural suites)

1. result
2. sequel
3. next step, next steps, that which follows, remainder, rest
4. (poker) straight
5. (mathematics) sequence
6. suite (group of connected rooms)

Derived terms

• suite à (“following, after”)
• à la suite
• de suite
• donner suite à
• ensuite
• tout de suite

 

Related terms

• suivre

Descendants

• → Catalan: suite
• → Danish: suite
• → Dutch: suite
• → English: suite
• → Galician: suite
• → German: Suite
• → Italian: suite
• → Norwegian Bokmål: suite
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: suite
• → Portuguese: suíte
• → Spanish: suite

Further reading

• “suite” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• étuis, situe, situé, usité

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Irish

Alternative forms

• suidhte (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsˠɪtʲə/

Adjective

suite

1. fixed, secured
2. mounted
3. fast
4. located

Synonyms

• (fixed, secured): fosaitheach, feistithe, daingnithe
• (mounted): gléasta
• (fast): ceangailte

Noun

suite

1. genitive singular of suí

Participle

suite

1. past participle of suigh

Mutation

Irish mutation
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.

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Latin

Verb

suite

1. second-person plural present active imperative of suō

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Middle English

Noun

suite

1. Alternative form of sute

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French suite.

Noun

suite m (definite singular suiten, indefinite plural suiter, definite plural suitene)

1. a suite (set of rooms)
2. a suite (music)
3. a suite (group of people in attendance)

References

• “suite” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French suite.

Noun

suite m (definite singular suiten, indefinite plural suitar, definite plural suitane)

1. a suite (set of rooms)
2. a suite (music)
3. a suite (group of people in attendance)

References

• “suite” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old French

Alternative forms

• seuite
• seut
• seute
• seutte
• sieulte
• sieute

• siite
• site
• siut
• siute
• siwete
• siwte

• suete
• suide
• suit
• sute
• suwite
• swte

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 f (oblique plural suites, nominative singular suite, nominative plural suites)

1. pursuit (act of pursuing)

Related terms

• sivre

Descendants

• → English: suit
• French: suite
  • → English: suite
    • Spanish: suite

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (sieute)
• siute on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French suite.

Noun

suite f (plural suites)

1. suite (rooms, hotel)

Further reading

• “suite” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.