suite

See also: Suite, suíte, and Suitë

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)

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, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →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.]

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: shpurë f
• 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: cóisir f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: suite m

  Nynorsk: suite m

• Russian: сви́та (ru) f (svíta)

connected series or succession of objects

• Bulgarian: набор m (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: suite m

  Nynorsk: suite m

• 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: сюи́та f (sjuíta)
• Catalan: suite (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 組曲／组曲 (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: 組曲 (くみきょく, kumikyoku)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: suite m

  Nynorsk: suite m

• 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: suite m

  Nynorsk: suite m

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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} svit (sv) (3)

References

• suite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Stuie, Tieus, etuis, use it, étuis

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French suite.

Noun

suite f (plural suites)

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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French suite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʋi.tə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: sui‧te
• Rhymes: -itə

Noun

suite f (plural suites)

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

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)

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”, in Trésor 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. genitive singular of suí

Participle

suite

1. past participle of suigh

Mutation

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

Romanization

suite

1. Rōmaji transcription of すいて

Latin

Verb

suite

1. second-person plural present active imperative of suō

Middle English

Noun

suite

1. Alternative form of sute

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French suite.

Noun

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)

References

• “suite” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French suite.

Noun

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)

References

• “suite” in The 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 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)

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 du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (sieute)
• siute on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French suite.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

suite f (plural suites)

1. suite (rooms, hotel)

Further reading

• “suite”, in Diccionario 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