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
Derived terms
Related terms
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)
Derived terms
Related terms
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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