suite French · revision 16057

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 1150, Laws of William the Conqueror|origins=la sequor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /sɥit/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''suite''' ''f'' (plural suites)^(Wiktionary)

+ [[xno|siwte]] (about 1150), ''siute'', ''sieute'' (14th century), ''suite'' from the 13th century.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is Old French [[m|fro|siute]], [[inh|la-vul|*sequita|t=pursuit]], the feminine used as a noun of “*sequitus”, a popular form of Latin “secūtus”, past participle of [[la|sequor|alt=sequī|t=to follow]];^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(FEW|11, 489b) it developed alongside [[suivre]], from Vulgar Latin “*sequere”.^(DHLF 1992)^(Wiktionary) The French participle “*sieut” disappeared before the first texts.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Littré derived it from [[la|secta]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The Anglo-Norman ''Laws of William the Conqueror'' (about 1150) has ''senz siwte e senz cri'', without pursuit or hue and cry: a legal pursuit.^(TLFi)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In feudal law the word, now replaced by ''poursuite'', also meant a right (1302), whence ''droit de suite'' (the creditor's right to follow a mortgaged property, 16th century; the artist's resale right, 1920).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) In hunting ''sieute'' (1376) was the pursuit of game.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ With the general value “what follows”, Old French used it for a sect and a social class, and about 1223 (Gautier de Coinci) for the people who travel with a superior, a retinue.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) From 1538 it was a series of things and what results from something, Montaigne has it for the followers of a doctrine (1580) and for a set of rooms (about 1590), and Larbaud for a hotel suite (1913).^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi) It named a series of medals (1690), the continuation of a book (1690), a mathematical sequence (Fontenelle, 1727) and a musical suite (Rameau, about 1717).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Phrases include ''par suite'' (1721), ''donner suite'' (1788), ''par suite de'' (1835) and commercial ''suite à''.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ English took ''suite'' in the 1670s for a retinue, and later for a musical suite, a set of rooms and a set of furniture, ''suit'' is an earlier borrowing of the same French word.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1150 – ''Siwte'' “legal pursuit”.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1223 – A retinue, in Gautier de Coinci.^(TLFi)

+ * 1376 – ''Sieute'' in hunting.^(TLFi)

+ * 1538 – A series; a consequence.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * c. 1590 – A set of rooms, in Montaigne.^(TLFi)

+ * 1670s – English ''suite''.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1690 – A series of medals.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1717 – A musical suite, in Rameau.^(TLFi)

+ * 1727 – A mathematical sequence.^(TLFi)

+ * 1788 – ''Donner suite''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1913 – A hotel suite.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # What follows; the rest: ''attendons la suite des événements'', ''la suite au prochain numéro''.^(Larousse)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A sequel, continuation: ''ce roman a une suite''.^(Larousse)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A series, succession: ''une suite de malheurs''.^(Larousse)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # A retinue: ''le roi et sa suite''.^(Larousse)^(TLFi)

+ # A consequence, result: ''les suites d'une maladie''.^(Larousse)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|suite]] (of rooms, in a hotel).^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

+ # ''(music)'' A suite.^(TLFi)^(BHVF)

+ # ''(mathematics)'' A sequence.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

+ # Phrases: ''tout de suite'': at once, ''de suite'': in a row, ''par la suite'': later, ''à la suite de'': after, following, ''suite à'': further to.^(Wiktionary)^(Le Robert)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ensuite]]

+ * [[ensuite]]

+ * [[suivre]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[poursuite]]

+ * [[secte]]

+ * [[la|sequor]]

+ * [[en|suite]]

+ * [[en|suit]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}