secuela
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Galician
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin sequēla
Noun
secuela f (plural secuelas)
- consequence, result
- aftereffect/after-effect, effect
- (medicine) sequela
- (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)
- Antonym: precuela
Further reading
- “secuela”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
secuela f (plural secuelas)
- consequence, result
- aftereffect/after-effect, effect
- (medicine) sequela (disease or condition which is caused by an earlier disease or problem)
- 2021 January 17, Oriol Güell, Jessica Mouzo, “Covid persistente: las secuelas que no se van”, in El País, retrieved 2021-01-18:
- En cualquier caso, el goteo de pacientes poscovid sobre el sistema sanitario se augura incesante. Los que sufren secuelas físicas, como fibrosis pulmonar, ictus o trombosis, “pueden presentar los cuadros más graves, pero es poco probable que sean una avalancha”, defiende Julio Mayol, director médico del Hospital Clínico de Madrid.
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- (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)
- Antonym: precuela
Further reading
- “secuela”, 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