suite

See also:Suite,suíte,andSuitë

English

Etymology

Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchsuite.See also the doubletsuit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/swiːt/

• Audio(US):

  (file)

• Homophone:sweet
• Hyphenation:suite
• Rhymes:-iːt

Noun

suite(pluralsuites)

1. A group or train ofattendants,servantsetc.; aretinue.[from 16th c.]
   • 1792,Charlotte Smith,Desmond,Broadview, published2001,page259:

     [A]s to men, we shall live altogether at the Duc de Romagnecourt's, hissuiteof servants will be ours.

2. A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together.[from 16th c.]

   asuiteof rooms

   asuiteof minerals

   • 1992,Rudolf M[athias]Schuster,The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian,volume V, Chicago, Ill.:Field Museum of Natural History,→ISBN,page vii:

     Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limitedsuiteof collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.

   • 1963,Margery Allingham,chapter 1, inThe China Governess: A Mystery,London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC:

     The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display asuiteof 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 Presidentialsuiteis 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, theNutcracker Suiteis the music (but not the dancing) from the balletThe Nutcracker,and theCarmen Suiteis the instrumental music (but not the singing and dancing) from the operaCarmen.
6. (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

• bridal suite
• cottage suite
• C-suite
• droit de suite
• en-suite
• en suite
• garage suite
• granny suite
• income suite
• in-law suite
• Jack and Jill suite
• secondary suite
• three-piece suite

Related terms

• ensuite

Translations

retinue or company of attendants

• Albanian:shpurëf
• Arabic:حَشَم(ḥašam)
• Armenian:շքախումբ(hy)(škʻaxumb)
• Bulgarian:сви́та(bg)f(svíta)
• Catalan:seguici(ca)m
• Finnish:seurue(fi)
• French:suite(fr)f
• Georgian:ამალა(amala)
• Hungarian:kíséret(hu)
• Irish:cóisirf
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:suitem

  Nynorsk:suitem

• Russian:сви́та(ru)f(svíta)

connected series or succession of objects

• Bulgarian:наборm(nabor),компле́кт(bg)m(komplékt)
• Dutch:reeks(nl)
• Finnish:sarja(fi)
• French:suite(fr)f
• Georgian:ნაკრები(naḳrebi)
• Greek:σουίτα(el)f(souíta)
• Portuguese:conjunto(pt)m,leque(pt)m,grupo(pt)m
• Russian:набо́р(ru)m(nabór),компле́кт(ru)m(komplékt),гарниту́р(ru)m(garnitúr)(furniture, clothes)
• Swedish:svit(sv)c

group of connected rooms

• Catalan:suite(ca)f
• Czech:apartmá(cs)n
• Dutch:suite(nl)
• Finnish:sviitti(fi)
• French:suite(fr)f
• German:Suite(de)f
• Greek:σουίτα(el)f(souíta)
• Hungarian:lakosztály(hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:suitem

  Nynorsk:suitem

• Persian:سوئیت(su'it)
• Portuguese:suíte(pt)f
• Russian:анфила́да(ru)f(anfiláda)
• Spanish:suite(es)f
• Swedish:svit(sv)c

musical form pre-dating the sonata

• Bulgarian:сюи́таf(sjuíta)
• Catalan:suite(ca)f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Tổ khúc／Tổ khúc(zh)(zǔqū)

• Czech:please add this translation if you can
• Dutch:please add this translation if you can
• Finnish:sarja(fi),sarjateos
• French:suite(fr)f
• German:Suite(de)f
• Greek:σουίτα(el)f(souíta)
• Hungarian:szvit(hu)
• Italian:please add this translation if you can
• Japanese:Tổ khúc(くみきょく, kumikyoku)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:suitem

  Nynorsk:suitem

• Polish:suita(pl)f
• Portuguese:suíte(pt)f
• Russian:сюи́та(ru)f(sjuíta)
• Spanish:suite(es)
• Swedish:svit(sv)c
• Ukrainian:please add this translation if you can

selection of music from a larger work

• Catalan:suite(ca)
• Dutch:suite(nl)
• Finnish:sarja(fi)
• French:suite(fr)f
• German:Suite(de)f
• Greek:σουίτα(el)f(souíta)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:suitem

  Nynorsk:suitem

• Russian:сюи́та(ru)f(sjuíta)
• Spanish:suite(es)f
• Ukrainian:сюї́таf(sjujíta)

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Translations to be checked

• Swedish:^{(pleaseverify)}svit(sv)(3)

References

• suiteon Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Stuie,Tieus,etuis,use it,étuis

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed fromFrenchsuite.

Noun

suitef(pluralsuites)

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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed fromFrenchsuite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈsʋi.tə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation:sui‧te
• Rhymes:-itə

Noun

suitef(pluralsuites)

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

French

Etymology

InheritedfromOld Frenchsuite,from earliersiute,fromVulgar Latin*sequita,(instead of classicalsecūta), as the feminine past participle of*sequere,fromLatinsequi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/sɥit/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

suitef(pluralsuites)

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)

Derived terms

• à la suite
• à tout de suite
• avoir de la suite dans les idées
• de suite
• donner suite à
• ensuite
• esprit de suite
• faire suite à
• par la suite
• par suite de
• suite à(“following, after”)
• tout de suite

Related terms

• suivre

Descendants

• →Belarusian:сюіта(sjuita)
• →Bulgarian:сюита(sjuita)
• →Catalan:suite
• →Czech:suita
• →Danish:suite
• →Dutch:suite
• →English:suite
• →Galician:suite
• →German:Suite
• →Greek:σουίτα(souíta)
• →Italian:suite
• →Norwegian Bokmål:suite
• →Norwegian Nynorsk:suite
• →Polish:suita
• →Portuguese:suíte
• →Romanian:suită
• →Russian:сюи́та(sjuíta)
• →Spanish:suite
• →Persian:سوئیت(su'it)
• →Ukrainian:сюї́та(sjujíta)

Further reading

• “suite”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Anagrams

• étuis,situe,situé,usité

Irish

Alternative forms

• suidhte(obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈsˠɪtʲə/

Adjective

suite

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

Synonyms

• (fixed, secured):fosaitheach,feistithe,daingnithe
• (mounted):gléasta
• (fast):ceangailte

Noun

suite

1. genitivesingularofsuí

Participle

suite

1. pastparticipleofsuigh

Mutation

Mutated formsofsuite

radical	lenition	eclipsis
suite	shuite afteran,tsuite	not applicable

Note:Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Japanese

Romanization

suite

1. Rōmajitranscription ofすいて

Latin

Verb

suite

1. second-personpluralpresentactiveimperativeofsuō

Middle English

Noun

suite

1. Alternative form ofsute

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed fromFrenchsuite.

Noun

suitem(definite singularsuiten,indefinite pluralsuiter,definite pluralsuitene)

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

References

• “suite”inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed fromFrenchsuite.

Noun

suitem(definite singularsuiten,indefinite pluralsuitar,definite pluralsuitane)

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

References

• “suite”inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

• suete,suide,suit,sute,suwite,swte
• seuite,seut,seute,seutte
• sieulte,sieute,siite,site,siut,siute,siwete,siwte

Etymology

From metathesis of earliersiute,sieutefromVulgar Latin*sequita,(instead of classicalsecūta), as the feminine past participle of*sequere,fromLatinsequor, sequi.

Noun

suiteoblique singular,f(oblique pluralsuites,nominative singularsuite,nominative pluralsuites)

1. pursuit(act of pursuing)

Related terms

• sivre

Descendants

• French:suite
  • →English:suite
    • Spanish:suite
• →Middle English:sute,sewte,sywete,suite,suyt,sewt,sywte,sywyte,swte,seute,sewht,soyte,sut,suet
  • English:suit
  • Scots:suit,soot
  • →Welsh:siwt

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric,Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes duIX^eauXV^esiècle(1881)(sieute)
• siuteon theAnglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Spanish

Etymology

BorrowedfromFrenchsuite.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

suitef(pluralsuites)

1. suite(rooms, hotel)

Further reading

• “suite”,inDiccionario de la lengua española[Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7,Royal Spanish Academy[Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28