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suite

See also: Suite, suíte, and Suitë

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Middle French suite. See also the doublet suit.

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Noun edit

suite (plural suites)

  1. A group or train of attendants, servants etc.; a retinue. [from 16th c.]
    • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 259:
      [A]s to men, we shall live altogether at the Duc de Romagnecourt's, his suite of servants will be ours.
  2. A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together. [from 16th c.]
    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: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      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. [from 18th c.]
    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. [from 19th c.]
  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. [from 20th c.]

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Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French suite.

Noun edit

suite f (plural suites)

  1. suite (connected rooms in a hotel)
  2. suite (music piece)

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from French suite.

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suite f (plural suites)

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

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Etymology edit

Inherited from Old French suite, from earlier siute, from Vulgar Latin *sequita, (instead of classical secūta), as the feminine past participle of *sequere, from Latin sequi.

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Noun edit

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)

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

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Adjective edit

suite

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

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Noun edit

suite

  1. genitive singular of suí

Participle edit

suite

  1. past participle of suigh

Mutation edit

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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Romanization edit

suite

  1. Rōmaji transcription of すいて

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suite

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of suō

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Noun edit

suite

  1. Alternative form of sute

Norwegian Bokmål edit

 
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Etymology edit

Borrowed from French suite.

Noun edit

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)

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Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French suite.

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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)

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Etymology edit

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 edit

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

  1. pursuit (act of pursuing)

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from French suite.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈswite/ [ˈswi.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ite
  • Syllabification: sui‧te

Noun edit

suite f (plural suites)

  1. suite (rooms, hotel)

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