suit

suit
subs.
Law suit: P. and V. ἀ̆γών, ὁ, δί̆κη, ἡ.
Courtship: V. μνηστεύμᾰτα, τά.
Entreaty: P. and V. χρεία, ἡ ; see entreaty.
Follow suit: use P. and V. ταὐτὰ ποιεῖν.
Suit of clothes: use Ar. and P. ἱμά̆τια, τά.
Suit of armour: Ar. and P. πᾰνοπλία, ἡ, V. παντευχία, ἡ.

suit
v. trans.
Fit, adapt: P. and V. ἐφαρμόζειν (Xen.), σῠναρμόζειν, προσαρμόζειν, Ar. and P. ἐναρμόζειν.
Be convenient: use P. and V. ἐπῐτήδειος εἶναι.
Become: P. and V. πρέπειν (dat.), ἁρμόζειν (dat.), προσήκειν (dat.).
These verses will now suit me to apply to you: P. κατὰ σοῦ τὰ ἰαμβεῖα ταῦθʼ ἁρμόσει νῦν ἐμοί (Dem. 417).
Correspond with: P. and V. συμβαίνειν (dat. or absol.), συντρέχειν (dat. or absol.); see correspond.

SUIT

Transitively. To adapt accommodare aliquid alicui rei or ad rem: facere or efficere ut aliquid congruat or conveniat cum re (to make anything suit another thing). To suit the words to the thoughts verba ad sensus accommodare; sententias accommodare vocibus: a speech to the place circumstances and persons orationem accommodare locis temporibus et personis.

To dress Vid:

Intransitively. To fit well aptum esse or apte convenire ad aliquid: apte convenire in aliquid (e.g. calcei ad pedes apti sunt or apte conveniunt): bene sedere (to sit well; of a coat vestis etc.).

To be fit for a person or thing (= be suitable for) decere (become): aptum esse alicui or alicui rei or ad aliquid: accommodatum esse alicui rei or ad aliquid: convenire alicui or alicui rei or cum aliqua re: congruere alicui rei or cum aliqua re [SYN. in AGREE]. Not to suit anything abhorrere a re: the name does not suit him (= is not applicable to him) nomen non convenit or cadit.

To be agreeable to alicui gratum esse (the proper word); alicui placere (to please); alicui arridere (to make a good impression on): not to suit ingratum esse: a thing suits me aliquid gratum juvat (poetical); delectat me aliquid or delector aliqua re: these things do not suit us ea ingenii nostri non sunt: this spot exactly suits my taste hic mihi praeter omnes locus ridet or arridet (after Hor. Od. 2 6 13).

suit (subs.):

I. A law-suit:

1. līs, lītis, f.: to enter on a s. by calling witnesses, l. contestari, Cic. Att. 16, 15, 2: to enter on a s. against some one, l. alicui intendere s. in aliquem inferre, id. (v. LAW-SUIT, TO SUE): to conduct a s., l. orare, id. Off. 3, 10, 43 (v. also TO PLEAD, II.): to abandon a s. (of an advocate who neglects his client's cause and defends himself), l. suam facere, id. de Or. 2, 75, 305: to gain or lose a s., l. obtinere aut amittere, id. Rosc. Com. 4, 10 (v. also TO LOSE, I., 2.).

2. causa: to conduct a s., c. orare s. dicere s. agere (v. TO PLEAD, II.): to gain a s., c. obtinere, Cic. Fam. 1, 4, 1: cf. c. vincere, Ov. H. 16, 76: to lose a s. (through misconduct in the defence), c. perdere, Cic. Rosc. Com. 4, 10: to be cast in a s., causa cadere (v. TO NONSUIT: cf. formula cadere, Sen. Ep. 48, fin.: formula excidere, Suet. Claud. 14: also cadere, absol., Tac. H. 4, 6): to drop or abandon a s., causa desistere, Cic. Off. 3, 31, 112: cf. affligere c. susceptam, id. Sest. 41, 89: v. CAUSE (subs., II.).

3. rēs, rĕi: v. CAUSE (subs., II., 2.). [Cf. Cic. Mur. 12, fin., tot homines statuere non potuisse, utrum rem an litem dici oporteret.]

4. actio, ōnis, f.: the s.s of many and the property in s. were lost, multis a. et res peribant, Liv. 39, 18, init.: v. also ACTION (V., 1.).

5. dĭca: v. ACTION (V., 2.).

6. jūdĭcium: to gain a s., judicio vincere, Cic. Rosc. Com. 18, 53: v. TRIAL, CRIMINAL (adj. II.). Phr.: to demand a s. against some one (from the praetor), in aliquem delationem nominis postulare, Cic. Div. in Caecil 20, 64: to grant a s., (of the praetor), nomen recipere (with gen. of the person sued), id. Verr. 2, 38, 94 (for which Tac. A. 2, 74, has recipere reum: and ib. 3, 70, aliquem inter reos recipere): to bring a s. against (lit. propose a judge to) some one, judicem ferre alicui, Liv. 3, 57, ad med.: to bring a s. according to law in respect of an inheritance, lege agere in hereditatem, Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175.

II. Petition: q. v.

III. Courtship: q. v. Phr.: (of the man) to make s. to, pĕto (v. TO WOO, SUITOR, Phr.): she has rejected my s., repulit connubia nostra, Virg. Aen. 4, 214. [Or may be expr. by sperno, contemno, etc. (v. TO DESPISE, REJECT) amantem, procum, etc. (v. LOVER, II., SUITOR, IV.)]

IV. A s. of clothes: synthĕsis, is, f.: Mart. 2, 46, 4. Or expr. gen. by vestītus, vestīmenta (v. CLOTHES). A s. of armour, arma, etc. (v. ARMOUR).

V. A s. of playing cards: perh. *chartarum lusoriarum familia s. genus. Phr.: to follow s., perh. *charta concolore s. simili ludere, For to follow s. (fig.), v. TO IMITATE. See also SUITE.

suit (v.):

A. Trans.: To adapt:

1. accommŏdo, 1: v. TO FIT, ACCOMMODATE.

2. compōno, 3: v. TO ADAPT, TO ARRANGE, REGULATE. Phr.: to s. the action to the word, may be expr. by dictum ac factum s. dictum factum (no sooner said than done: v. Smith's Lat. Dict. s. v. dico, I., 4.).

B. Intrans.:

I. To be adapted to:

1. convĕnio, vēni, ventum, 4: liquid food s.s the fatigued, cibus humidus fatigatis convenit, Cels. which vices seem to s. any one you please rather than him you mention, quae vitia in quemvis videntur potius quam in istum c., Cic. Verr. 1, 49, 128 the name does not s., nomen non c., Ter. Andr. 5, 4, 39.

2. congruo, ui, 3: one kind of speech does not s. every case, non omni causae c. orationis unum genus, Cic. de Or. 3, 55, 210.

3. consentio, sensi, sensum, 4: v. TO AGREE (IV.), TO HARMONIZE.

4. haereo, haesi, haesum, 2 (rare in this sense): and let not the chorus sing anything between the acts which does not lead on to the plot and s. well, neu quid medios (chorus) intercinat actus quod non proposito conducat et haereat apte, Hor. A. P. 195. Cf. comp., cohaereo (v. TO FIT TOGETHER, CORRESPOND).

5. respondeo, di, sum, 2: v. TO CORRESPOND, TO ANSWER (II.).

6. cădo, cĕcĭdi, cāsum, 3 (with in and acc.): that suspicion of yours s.s not (or is not suitable to) this man, non in hunc hominem c. ista suspicio, Cic. Sull. 27, 75.

7. quadro, 1 (to square or agree with): to s. in many respects, ad multa q., id. Att. 4, 18, 3. Or expr. by sum and adj. (v. FIT, SUITABLE): when it shall s. (or be convenient for) you, quum erit tuum commodum, ib. 12, 28, 3 (expr. by commodo tuo, id. Fam. 4, 2, 4). Phr.: the man s.s you perfectly, magis ex usu tuo nemo est, Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 47: the other arts s. not every age, ceterae artes non aetatum omnium sunt, Cic. (Quich.).

II. To become, q. v.: dĕcet, convĕnit. Or expr. by sum with adj. (v. BECOMING, SUITABLE).

III. To please, q. v.: Phr.: they do not s. you, non tui stomachi (sunt), Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2 (v. also LIKING, Phr.): the same things do not s. everybody, non omnes eadem mirantur amantque, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 58.