SUIT Copy link • SUIT 1. 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). 2. Action at law, lis: causa [Vid: ACTION]. Costs of a suit litis summa; impensae in litem factae (Paullus, Dig., 3, 3, 30). A set (of clothes), vestimenta, -orum, plur.; synthesis (a complete suit, Mart., and later writers). Petition, Vid.