Prequel
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A prequel is a work that supplements a previously completed one, and has an earlier time setting.
The widely recognized term was a 20th-century neologism, and a portmanteau from pre- (Latin for "before") and sequel (a supplementing work with a setting later than its predecessor's, from the Latin sequella, thing that follows).
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