sequel

sequel

See also: séquel

English

Etymology

From Middle French séquelle [1], from Latin sequela, from sequi (“to follow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːkwəl/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -iːkwəl

Noun

sequel (plural sequels)

1. (dated) The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath.
   • 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:

     Now here Christian was worse put to it than in his fight with Apollyon, as by the sequel you shall see.

2. (narratology) A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own.
3. (mathematics) The remainder of the text; what follows. Used exclusively in the set phrase "in the sequel".
   • 1964, Hans Freudenthal, "Lie Groups in the Foundations of Geometry," Advances in Mathematics, volume 1, number 2, page 146:

     In the sequel we restrict ourselves to “nice” cases without going into details about the nicety conditions which have to be fulfilled (see, e.g., Freudenthal [1]).

4. (Scotland, historical) Thirlage.
5. (obsolete) A person's descendants.

Antonyms

• prequel

Coordinate terms

• midquel

Derived terms

• direct sequel
• distant sequel
• interquel
• midquel
• prequel
• requel
• sequelitis
• sequelize
• threequel

 

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sekʷ-‎ (3 c, 0 e)

Translations

a narrative written after another narrative set in the same universe

Bulgarian: продължение (bg) n (prodǎlženie) Catalan: seqüela (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 續集／续集 (zh) (xùjí) Dutch: vervolg (nl) n Esperanto: daŭrigo Finnish: jatko-osa (fi) French: suite (fr) f German: Fortsetzung (de) f, Folge (de) f Greek: συνέχεια (el) f (synécheia) Hebrew: המשך‎ m (hemsheikh) Italian: seguito (it) m Japanese: 続編 (ぞくへん, zokuhen), 続き (つづき, tsuzuki) Korean: 후편 (ko) (hupyeon), 속편 (ko) (sokpyeon) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: berdewamî (ku) f, dûmahî (ku) f Latin: consequentia narrativa ? Malay: susulan (ms), sekuel Norwegian: Bokmål: oppfølger m Nynorsk: oppfølgar m Polish: sequel (pl) m Portuguese: sequência (pt) f, continuação (pt) f, sequela (pt) f Russian: продолже́ние (ru) n (prodolžénije) (кни́ги, фи́льма), си́квел (ru) m (síkvɛl) Slovak: pokračovanie n, diel m, epizóda f Spanish: secuela (es) f Swedish: uppföljare (sv) c Tagalog: kasumunod

References

1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “sequel”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English sequel, from Middle French séquelle, from Latin sequela, from sequi (“to follow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsik.wɛl/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ikwɛl
• Syllabification: se‧quel

Noun

sequel m inan

1. (narratology) sequel

Declension

Declension of sequel

	singular	plural
nominative	sequel	sequele
genitive	sequela/sequelu	sequeli
dative	sequelowi	sequelom
accusative	sequel	sequele
instrumental	sequelem	sequelami
locative	sequelu	sequelach
vocative	sequelu	sequele

Further reading

• sequel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sequel in Polish dictionaries at PWN