Translation
second (of time)
Word origin
From Latin pars minuta secunda, 'the second small part' of an hour: the minute was the first division, the second the next. Built on sequi ('to follow'), so a second is literally 'the following one'.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- secunda
- English cognates
- second, sequence, consecutive
Examples
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Wait just ten seconds.
sesdek .
One minute has sixty seconds.
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He arrived a few seconds too late.
Only the tick of the clock: the second in a queue is , from (two), so no ambiguity survives translation.
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