Seguita

Seguita is the feminine singular past participle of the Italian verb seguire, and it also functions as an adjective meaning followed, pursued, or subsequent when it modifies a feminine noun. The masculine counterpart is seguito, and the feminine plural is seguite. The form derives from Latin sequitus, from sequī “to follow.”

In contemporary Italian, seguita is most commonly encountered in compound tenses and passive constructions with essere, where it agrees with the subject in gender and number. For example: La persona è stata seguita dai paparazzi. Here the feminine singular seguita describes the subject after a passive construction. It can also appear in noun phrases to indicate a sequence or order when used in a descriptive sense, though more common expressions for “following” or “subsequent” in everyday language are the adjectives successivo or successiva.

Usage notes and nuances: seguita carries the sense of something that has been or is being followed, pursued, or placed after something else in time or order. In many contexts where “subsequent” is intended, Italian writers often prefer the related adjective successivo/successiva, which more narrowly conveys temporal succession. Seguita retains a broader, participial nuance and is most natural in formal, literary, or specific phrasing such as describing actions that have been carried out in sequence or that were followed by other actions.

See also: seguire, seguito, successivo.