sequel
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English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From Middle English sequele , sequelle , sequile , from Middle French sequele , sequelle and its etymon, Latin sequēla , from sequī ("to follow").[1] Doublet of sequela .
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]sequel (plural sequels )
- (dated ) The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath.
- 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: [...] , London: [...] Nath[aniel] Ponder [...], →OCLC, page 75:
- Now here Christian was worse put to it then in his fight with Apollyon, as by the sequel you shall see.
- 1954 November, Frank Hewitt, "The First Decade of British 4-6-0 Locomotives—1", in Railway Magazine, page 747:
- In its sixty-year history here, some 4,170 engines of the 4-6-0 type have been constructed. This is the vast sequel of that bold experimental step of the Highland Railway in 1894.
- (narratology ) A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own.
- (by restriction) Synonym of postquel ; a narrative work that follows-on and is set after an prior existing work.
- Any text that continues on from another text.
- 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 159:
- It greatly resembles the Rabbinical account of the origin of the Mazckeen, which the reader will meet in the sequel.
- (mathematics ) The remainder of the text; what follows. Used exclusively in the set phrase "in the sequel".
- 1964, Hans Freudenthal, "Lie Groups in the Foundations of Geometry", in Advances in Mathematics, volume 1, number 2, page 146:
- In the sequel we restrict ourselves to "nice" cases without going into details about the nicety conditions which have to be fulfilled (see, e.g., Freudenthal [1]).
- (Scotland , historical ) Thirlage.
- (obsolete ) A person's descendants.
Synonyms
[edit ]narrative follow-up set after an earlier work
Antonyms
[edit ]narrative follow-up set after an earlier work
Coordinate terms
[edit ]Derived terms
[edit ]- cheapquel
- direct sequel
- distant sequel
- fivequel
- fourquel
- interquel
- legacyquel
- legacy sequel
- legasequel
- midquel
- nonsequel
- postquel
- prequel
- pre-sequel
- -quel
- requel
- sequel hook
- sequelisation
- sequelise
- sequelitis
- sequelization
- sequelize
- sidequel
- spinquel
- spiritual sequel
- squeakquel
- threequel
- trequel
- unsequeled
Related terms
[edit ]Descendants
[edit ]- → Catalan: seqüela (semantic loan)
- → Indonesian: sekuel
- → Polish: sequel
- → Russian: си́квел (síkvel)
Translations
[edit ]a narrative written after another narrative set in the same universe
- Bulgarian: продължение (bg) n (prodălženie)
- Catalan: seqüela (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Dutch: vervolg (nl) n
- Esperanto: daŭrigo , sekvaĵo
- Finnish: jatko-osa (fi)
- French: suite (fr) f
- German: Fortsetzung (de) f, Folge (de) f
- Greek: συνέχεια (el) f (synécheia)
- Hebrew: המשך m (hemsheikh)
- Indonesian: sekuel (id)
- Italian: seguito (it) m
- Japanese: 続編 (ja) (ぞくへん, zokuhen), 続き (ja) (つづき, tsuzuki)
- Korean: 후편 (ko) (hupyeon), 속편 (ko) (sokpyeon)
- Kurdish:
- Latin: consequentia narrativa f
- Malay: susulan (ms) , sekuel
- Māori: paki ahumuri , whakahiku
- Norwegian:
- Polish: sequel (pl) m
- Portuguese: sequência (pt) f, continuação (pt) f, sequela (pt) f
- Russian: продолже́ние (ru) n (prodolžénije) (кни́ги, фи́льма), си́квел (ru) m (síkvɛl)
- Slovak: pokračovanie n, diel (sk) m, epizóda f
- Spanish: secuela (es) f
- Swedish: uppföljare (sv) c
- Tagalog: kasumunod
References
[edit ]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), "sequel (n.)", in Online Etymology Dictionary .
Polish
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Unadapted borrowing from English sequel , from Middle English sequele , sequelle , sequile , from Middle French sequele , sequelle and its etymon, Latin sequēla , from sequī .
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]sequel m inan
Declension
[edit ]Declension of sequel
Further reading
[edit ]Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=sequel&oldid=92184468"
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