suite

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See also: Suite, suíte, and Suitë

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Middle French suite. See also the doublet suit.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /swiːt/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Homophone: sweet
  • Hyphenation: suite
  • Rhymes: -iːt

Noun[edit]

suite (plural suites)

  1. 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.
  2. 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, […].
  3. 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.
  4. (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.]
  5. (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.
  6. (computing) A group of related computer programs distributed together. [from 20th c.]

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Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French suite.

Noun[edit]

suite f (plural suites)

  1. suite (connected rooms in a hotel)
  2. suite (music piece)

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French suite.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

suite f (plural suites)

  1. suite (group of interconnected rooms)
  2. (music) suite (music piece)

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

Noun[edit]

suite f (plural suites)

  1. result
  2. sequel
  3. next step, next steps, that which follows, remainder, rest
  4. (poker) straight
  5. (mathematics) sequence
  6. suite (group of connected rooms)

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Descendants[edit]

  • → Catalan: suite
  • → Danish: suite
  • → Dutch: suite
  • → English: suite
  • → Galician: suite
  • → German: Suite
  • → Italian: suite
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: suite
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: suite
  • → Portuguese: suíte
  • → Spanish: suite

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Irish[edit]

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Adjective[edit]

suite

  1. fixed, secured
  2. mounted
  3. fast
  4. located

Synonyms[edit]

Noun[edit]

suite

  1. genitive singular of suí

Participle[edit]

suite

  1. past participle of suigh

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
suite shuite
after an, tsuite 		not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

suite

  1. Rōmaji transcription of すいて

Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

suite

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of suō

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

suite

  1. Alternative form of sute

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French suite.

Noun[edit]

suite m (definite singular suiten, indefinite plural suiter, definite plural suitene)

  1. a suite (set of rooms)
  2. a suite (music)
  3. a suite (group of people in attendance)

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French suite.

Noun[edit]

suite m (definite singular suiten, indefinite plural suitar, definite plural suitane)

  1. a suite (set of rooms)
  2. a suite (music)
  3. a suite (group of people in attendance)

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Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

suite oblique singular, f (oblique plural suites, nominative singular suite, nominative plural suites)

  1. pursuit (act of pursuing)

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Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French suite.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈswite/ [ˈswi.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ite
  • Syllabification: sui‧te

Noun[edit]

suite f (plural suites)

  1. suite (rooms, hotel)

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