{"id":4138,"date":"2010-12-28T12:28:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T12:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2010-12-28T12:28:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T12:28:43","slug":"segues-and-sequels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=4138","title":{"rendered":"Segues and sequels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Segue<\/strong> [\u02c8se\u026agwe\u026a; \u02c8s\u025bgwe\u026a]<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 verb<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>to continue at once with the next musical section or composition (often used as a musical direction).<\/li>\n<li>to perform in the manner of the preceding section (used as a musical direction).<\/li>\n<li>to make a transition from one thing to another smoothly and without interruption: The conversation segued from travel anecdotes to food.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u2013 noun<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>an uninterrupted transition made between one musical section or composition and another.<\/li>\n<li>any smooth, uninterrupted transition from one thing to another.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Etymology<\/strong>: from 1740 it was used as a musical instruction to play into the following movement without a break, literally &#8220;now follows&#8221;. It is a third person singular of the Italian verb <em>seguire<\/em> (to follow), and comes from the Latin <em>sequ\u012b<\/em> (to follow), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*sekw-<\/em> (to follow)<\/p>\n<p><em>*sekw-<\/em> is also the root of the English word sequel, via the Old French <em>sequelle<\/em>, from the Late Latin <em>sequela<\/em> (that which follows, result, consequence), from the Latin <em>sequ\u012b<\/em> (to follow).<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/segue\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>This word came up in a crossword I did yesterday and though I&#8217;d heard it before, I haven&#8217;t seen it written down and thought it was spelt something like segway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Segue [\u02c8se\u026agwe\u026a; \u02c8s\u025bgwe\u026a] \u2013 verb to continue at once with the next musical section or composition (often used as a musical direction). to perform in the manner of the preceding section (used as a musical direction). to make a transition from one thing to another smoothly and without interruption: The conversation segued from travel anecdotes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}