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[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.

   • 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 [1]).

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

• prequel

• midquel

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

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