# sequor
## Latin
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Italic *sekʷōr, from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Cognates include Sanskrit सचते (sácate), Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬗𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬉 (hacaitē) and Ancient Greek ἕπομαι (hépomai).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈse.kʷor/, [ˈs̠ɛkʷɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈse.kwor/, [ˈsɛːkwor]

### Verb

sequor (present infinitive sequī, perfect active secūtus sum or sequūtus sum); third conjugation, deponent
* (with accusative) to follow, to come or go after, to pursue
    Synonyms: persequor, cōnsequor, īnsequor, īnsector, continuō, excipiō, exsequor, agō, premō, īnstō
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 3.188:Cēdāmus Phoebō et monitī meliōra sequāmur.Let us yield to Phoebus, and having been warned follow better things.
** 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.20:Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor.I see, and I desire the better: I follow the worse.
** 234 BCE – 149 BCE, Cato the Elder :Rem tene, verba sequentur.Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
* to accede to, to conform to
* to attend, accompany
    Synonyms: comitō, exsequor, cōnsequor
* to succeed (i.e., follow in position)
    Synonyms: subeō, succēdō, excipiō
* (logic, third person) to follow, ensue

#### Usage notes

The verb dūcere is used for "to be followed," effectively giving dūcere two passives, this verb being one of them.
In later Latin, an active voice was invented for "to follow," leading to the passive forms being relegated to "to be followed."

#### Derived terms

* assequor
* cōnsequor
* exsequor
* īnsequor
* nōn sequitur
* obsequor
* persequor
* prōsequor
* resequor
* sector
* secundus
* secūtor
* sequāx
* sequēla
* sequēns
* sequester
* subsequor

#### Related terms

* secus
* socius

#### Descendants

* Catalan: seguir
* Franco-Provençal: siuvre
* Old French: segre, siure, sivre, siudre; suiant, sivant; sieute, suite
** Bourguignon: seugre
** Gallo: sieude
** → Middle English: suant, suit
*** English: sue; suant; suit
** Middle French: suyvre
*** French: suivre; suite
**** → English: suite
** Picard: suire
** Norman: sieuvre, suuvre
** Walloon: shuve
* Italian: seguire
** → English: segue
* Occitan: seguir, sègre
* Old Galician-Portuguese: seguir
** Galician: seguir
** Portuguese: seguir
*** → Papiamentu: sigui
* Sardinian: sichire
* Sicilian: sicutari (from *sequitare)
* Spanish: seguir
* → Esperanto: sekvi

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sequor, sequī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 555-6

### Further reading

* “sequor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “sequor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* sequor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to follow in any one's steps: vestigia alicuius sequi, persequi or vestigiis aliquem sequi, persequi to court a person's favour; to ingratiate oneself with..: gratiam alicuius sibi quaerere, sequi, more strongly aucupari to be a lover of ease, leisure: otium sequi, amplexari to adopt some one's opinion: ad alicuius sententiam accedere, sententiam alicuius sequi to try to conjecture probabilities: probabilia coniectura sequi my intention is..: id sequor, ut to be guided by another's example: auctoritatem alicuius sequi to be a follower, disciple of some one: sectam alicuius sequi (Brut. 31. 120) it follows from this that..: sequitur (not ex quo seq.) ut to hold by the letter (of the law): verba ac litteras or scriptum (legis) sequi (opp. sententia the spirit) to strive to attain virtue: virtutem sequi, virtutis studiosum esse to follow fixed principles of conduct: certas rationes in agendo sequi to embrace the cause of..., be a partisan of..: alicuius partes (causam) or simply aliquem sequi to be neutral: neutram partem sequi to follow the standards: signa sequi (opp. a signis discedere, signa relinquere)