sequel
English
Etymology
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SEQUELCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sekʷ- (follow)#SEQUELFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#SEQUELCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#SEQUEL sequele, sequelle, sequile, from Middle FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Middle French#SEQUEL sequele, sequelle and its etymon, LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#SEQUEL sequēla, from sequī (“to follow”).[1] Doublet of sequelaCategory:English doublets#SEQUEL.
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sequel (plural sequels)Category:English lemmas#SEQUELCategory:English nouns#SEQUELCategory:English countable nouns#SEQUELCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SEQUELCategory:Pages with entries#SEQUELCategory:Pages with 2 entries#SEQUEL
- (datedCategory:English dated terms#SEQUEL) 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.Category:English terms with quotations#SEQUEL
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#SEQUEL
- (narratologyCategory:en:Narratology#SEQUEL) 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.
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#SEQUEL
- (mathematicsCategory:en:Mathematics#SEQUEL) 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]).Category:English terms with quotations#SEQUEL
- (ScotlandCategory:Scottish English#SEQUEL, historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#SEQUEL) Thirlage.
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SEQUEL) A person's descendants.
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References
- ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “sequel (n.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from EnglishCategory:Polish terms borrowed from English#SEQUELCategory:Polish unadapted borrowings from English#SEQUELCategory:Polish terms derived from English#SEQUEL sequel, from Middle EnglishCategory:Polish terms derived from Middle English#SEQUEL sequele, sequelle, sequile, from Middle FrenchCategory:Polish terms derived from Middle French#SEQUEL sequele, sequelle and its etymon, LatinCategory:Polish terms derived from Latin#SEQUEL sequēla, from sequī.
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Noun
sequel m inanCategory:Polish lemmas#SEQUELCategory:Polish nouns#SEQUELCategory:Polish terms spelled with Q#SEQUELCategory:Polish entries with incorrect language header#SEQUELCategory:Polish masculine nouns#SEQUELCategory:Polish inanimate nouns#SEQUELCategory:Pages with entries#SEQUELCategory:Pages with 2 entries#SEQUEL