Other forms: sequels
A sequel is the film or book that continues the story of an earlier one. A sequel to the novel, the sequel was worse, a sequel is planned.
A prequel goes backwards in time, and a spin-off follows a different character in the same world. The general rule that sequels disappoint is old, widely believed and full of exceptions. The word also means a consequence or what follows — in the sequel — which is formal and rare. Note that a sequel needs a preceding work by definition, so calling something a sequel to real events is a stretch.
1nounsequelA film or book continuing the story of an earlier one.
“The sequel took nine years and made twice as much.”
sequel is a continuation.
Latin sequela means that which follows, from sequi, to follow — the same verb behind sequence, consequence and second, which is simply the one that follows first.
Proto-Indo-European
*sekʷ-
Latin
sequēla
Middle French
sequele
Middle English
sequele
English, today
sequel
Built from
From Middle English sequele, sequelle, sequile, from Middle French sequele, sequelle and its etymon, Latin sequēla, from sequor (“to follow”). a doublet of sequela.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA