secuela

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sequēla

Noun

secuela f (plural secuelas)

1. consequence, result
2. aftereffect/after-effect, effect
3. (medicine) sequela
4. (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

Borrowed from Latin sequēla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈkwela/ [seˈkwe.la]
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: se‧cue‧la

Noun

secuela f (plural secuelas)

1. consequence, result
2. aftereffect/after-effect, effect
3. (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^[1], 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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4. (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 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Anagrams

• escuela