suite
See also: Suite, suit, and suíte
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French suite. See also the doublet suit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /swiːt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -iːt
- Homophone: sweet
- Hyphenation: suite
Noun
suite (plural suites)
- A group or train of attendants, servants etc.; a retinue. [from 16th c.]
- 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview 2001, p. 259:
- [A]s to men, we shall live altogether at the Duc de Romagnecourt's, his suite of servants will be ours.
- 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview 2001, p. 259:
- 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:
- 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. [from 18th c.]
- 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. [from 19th c.]
- (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. [from 20th c.]
Hyponyms
- (computing): office suite, test suite, validation suite
- (music): dance suite
Related terms
- ensuite
Translations
retinue or company of attendants
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connected series or succession of objects
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group of connected rooms
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musical form pre-dating the sonata
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selection of music from a larger work
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References
suite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Stuie, Tieus, etuis, use it, étuis
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French suite.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsʋi.tə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: sui‧te
- Rhymes: -itə
Noun
suite f (plural suites)
- suite (group of interconnected rooms)
- (music) suite (music piece)
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)
- 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
- à tout de suite
- avoir de la suite dans les idées
- de suite
- donner suite à
- ensuite
- esprit de suite
- par la suite
- par suite de
- suite à (“following, after”)
- 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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- étuis, situe, situé, usité
Irish
Alternative forms
- suidhte (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsˠɪtʲə/
Adjective
suite
- fixed, secured
- mounted
- fast
- located
Synonyms
- (fixed, secured): fosaitheach, feistithe, daingnithe
- (mounted): gléasta
- (fast): ceangailte
Noun
suite
- genitive singular of suí
Participle
suite
- 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. | ||
Japanese
Romanization
suite
- Rōmaji transcription of すいて
Latin
Verb
suite
- second-person plural present active imperative of suō
Middle English
Noun
suite
- Alternative form of sute
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from French suite.
Noun
suite m (definite singular suiten, indefinite plural suiter, definite plural suitene)
- a suite (set of rooms)
- a suite (music)
- a suite (group of people in attendance)
References
- “suite” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from French suite.
Noun
suite m (definite singular suiten, indefinite plural suitar, definite plural suitane)
- a suite (set of rooms)
- a suite (music)
- a suite (group of people in attendance)
References
- “suite” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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)
- pursuit (act of pursuing)
Related terms
- sivre
Descendants
- → English: suit
- French: suite
- → English: suite
- Spanish: suite
- → English: suite
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
Borrowed from French suite.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈswite/ [ˈswi.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ite
- Syllabification: sui‧te
Noun
suite f (plural suites)
- suite (rooms, hotel)
Further reading
- “suite”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014