sekunde
Latvian
editEtymology
editFrom Medieval Latin secunda, short for secunda pars minuta (“second diminished part (of the hour)”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsekunde f (5th declension)
- second (SI unit of time, 1/60 of a minute)
- minūtei ir sešdesmit sekundes ― a minute has sixty seconds
- tas ilga dažas sekundes ― that lasted a few seconds
- šis indikators mirgo reizi sekundē ― this light flashes once per second
- second of arc (unit of angular measurement, 1/60 of a minute of arc)
- šī leņķa lielums ir viena sekunde ― the size of this angle is one second (of arc)
Declension
editDeclension of sekunde (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | sekunde | sekundes |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | sekundi | sekundes |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | sekundes | sekunžu |
dative (datīvs) | sekundei | sekundēm |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | sekundi | sekundēm |
locative (lokatīvs) | sekundē | sekundēs |
vocative (vokatīvs) | sekunde | sekundes |
See also
editSwahili
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English second[1] or German Sekunde.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsekunde (n class, plural sekunde)
- second (sixtieth of a minute)
References
edit- ^ Mugane, John M. (2015) The Story of Swahili (Africa in World History), Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 54: “The English-derived Swahili words for units of distance and time include futi (foot), inchi (inch), kilometa (kilometer), maili (mile), yadi (yard), and sekunde (second), all spelled according to their Bantu adaptations.”
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