suite
English
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Middle French suite. See also the doublet suit.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /swiːt/
- Audio (US) - (file) 
- Homophone: sweet
- Hyphenation: suite
- Rhymes: -iːt
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, 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, […].
 
 
- 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
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Translations
    
retinue or company of attendants
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
    
    
Dutch
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈsʋi.tə/
- Audio - (file) 
- Hyphenation: sui‧te
- Rhymes: -itə
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
    
- IPA(key): /sɥit/
- audio - (file) 
Noun
    
suite f (plural suites)
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Descendants
    
Further reading
    
- “suite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Irish
    
    Alternative forms
    
- suidhte (obsolete)
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈsˠɪtʲə/
Synonyms
    
- (fixed, secured): fosaitheach, feistithe, daingnithe
- (mounted): gléasta
- (fast): ceangailte
Latin
    
    
Middle English
    
    
Norwegian Bokmål
    
    
References
    
- “suite” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
    
    
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
    
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
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈswite/ [ˈswi.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ite
- Syllabification: sui‧te
Further reading
    
- “suite”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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