FromMiddle Englishsequele,sequelle,sequile, fromMiddle Frenchsequele,sequelle and its etymon,Latinsequēla, fromsequī(“to follow”).[1]Doublet ofsequela.
sequel (pluralsequels)
- (dated) Theevents, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; theaftermath.
1954 November, Frank Hewitt, “The First Decade of British 4-6-0 Locomotives—1”, inRailway Magazine, page747:In its sixty-year history here, some 4,170 engines of the4-6-0 type have been constructed. This is the vastsequel of that bold experimental step of the Highland Railway in 1894.
- (narratology) Anarrative 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 ofpostquel; a narrative work that follows-on and is set after an prior existing work.
- Anytext that continues on from another text.
1850,Thomas Keightley,The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page159:It greatly resembles the Rabbinical account of the origin of the Mazckeen, which the reader will meet in thesequel.
- (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”, inAdvances in Mathematics, volume 1, number 2, page146: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'sdescendants.
narrative follow-up set after an earlier work
narrative follow-up set after an earlier work
a narrative written after another narrative set in the same universe
- Bulgarian:продължение (bg) n(prodǎlženie)
- Catalan:seqüela (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:續集 /续集 (zh)(xùjí)
- 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:
- Northern Kurdish:berdewamî (ku) f,dûmahî (ku) f
- Latin:consequentia narrativa f
- Malay:susulan (ms),sekuel
- Māori:paki ahumuri,whakahiku
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:oppfølger m
- Nynorsk:oppfølgar m
- 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
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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishsequel, fromMiddle Englishsequele,sequelle,sequile, fromMiddle Frenchsequele,sequelle and its etymon,Latinsequēla, fromsequī.
sequel m inan
- (narratology)sequel
- sequel inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- sequel in Polish dictionaries at PWN
