sequel

From Middle English sequele, sequelle, sequile, from Middle French sequele, sequelle and its etymon, Latin sequēla, from sequī (“to follow”).^[1] Doublet of sequela.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːkwəl/

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• Rhymes: -iːkwəl

sequel (plural sequels)

1. (dated) 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 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.

   • 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.

2. (narratology) 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.
3. 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.

4. (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”, 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 ).

5. (Scotland, historical) Thirlage.
6. (obsolete) A person's descendants.

• prequel

• midquel

• → Catalan: seqüela (semantic loan)
• → Polish: sequel
• → Russian: си́квел (síkvel)

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Unadapted borrowing from English sequel, from Middle English sequele, sequelle, sequile, from Middle French sequele, sequelle and its etymon, Latin sequēla, from sequī.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.kwɛl/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ikwɛl
• Syllabification: se‧quel

sequel m inan

1. (narratology) sequel

• sequel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sequel in Polish dictionaries at PWN