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suite
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French suite. See also the doublet suit.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: suite
Noun
suite (plural suites)
- 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.
- 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, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →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, […].
- 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
- bridal suite
- (computing): office suite, test suite, validation suite
- (music): dance suite
Derived terms
Related terms
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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Catalan
Etymology
Noun
suite f (plural suites)
- suite (connected rooms in a hotel)
- suite (music piece)
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
suite f (plural suites)
French
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
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
Related terms
Descendants
- → Belarusian: сюіта (sjuita)
- → Bulgarian: сюита (sjuita)
- → Catalan: suite
- → Czech: suita
- → Danish: suite
- → Dutch: suite
- → English: suite
- → Galician: suite
- → German: Suite
- → Greek: σουίτα (souíta)
- → Italian: suite
- → Norwegian Bokmål: suite
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: suite
- → Persian: سوئیت (su'it)
- → Polish: suita
- → Portuguese: suíte
- → Romanian: suită
- → Russian: сюи́та (sjuíta)
- → Spanish: suite
- → Swedish: svit
- → Ukrainian: сюї́та (sjujíta)
Further reading
- “suite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Irish
Alternative forms
- suidhte (obsolete)
Pronunciation
Adjective
suite
Synonyms
- (fixed, secured): fosaitheach, feistithe, daingnithe
- (mounted): gléasta
- (fast): ceangailte
Noun
suite
Participle
suite
- past participle of suigh
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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Japanese
Romanization
suite
Latin
Verb
suite
Middle English
Noun
suite
- alternative form of sute
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
suite m (definite singular suiten, indefinite plural suiter, definite plural suitene)
References
- “suite” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
suite m (definite singular suiten, indefinite plural suitar, definite plural suitane)
References
- “suite” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Alternative forms
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 oblique singular, f (oblique plural suites, nominative singular suite, nominative plural suites)
- pursuit (act of pursuing)
Related terms
Descendants
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
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Portuguese
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sui‧te
Noun
suite f (plural suites)
Etymology 2
Noun
suite f (plural suites)
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of suíte.
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
suite f (plural suites)
- suite (rooms, hotel)
Further reading
- “suite”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
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