sequens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of sequor (“I follow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛ.kʷẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛː.kʷens]

Participle

sequēns (genitive sequentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. following

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	sequēns			sequentēs	sequentia
genitive	sequentis			sequentium
dative	sequentī			sequentibus
accusative	sequentem	sequēns		sequentēs sequentīs	sequentia
ablative	sequente sequentī1			sequentibus
vocative	sequēns			sequentēs	sequentia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Descendants

• Catalan: següent
• English: sequent
• French: suivant (possibly)
• Italian: seguente
• Portuguese: seguinte
• Romanian: secvent
• Spanish: siguiente

References

• “sequens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sequens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sequens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • in the following year: insequenti(e) anno (not sequente)