seconde

See also: secondé

English

Etymology

From French.

Noun

seconde (plural secondes)

1. (fencing) The second defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, with the hand held in a prone position and the tip of the sword below the level of the guard.

Anagrams

• Cedenos, encodes

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French seconde, from Latin secunda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsəˈkɔn.də/

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• Hyphenation: se‧con‧de
• Rhymes: -ɔndə

Noun

seconde f (plural seconden or secondes, diminutive secondje n or secondetje n)

1. second (a unit of time)

Derived terms

• attoseconde
• femtoseconde
• microseconde
• milliseconde
• nanoseconde
• picoseconde
• secondewijzer

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: sekonde
• → Caribbean Javanese: sekon
• → Indonesian: sekon
• → West Frisian: sekonde

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sə.ɡɔ̃d/

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Etymology 1

Adjective

seconde

1. feminine singular of second

Etymology 2

The first sense is a borrowing from Latin (minuta) secunda.

Noun

seconde f (plural secondes)

1. second (for indicating time)

   Coordinate terms: minute, heure

   • 2018, Zaz (lyrics and music), “J'aime, j'aime”:

     Quelqu’un quelque part au bout du monde qui pense à la même seconde à la même chose que moi

     Someone somewhere at the end of the world who thinks at the same second of the same thing as me

2. (music) second (interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale)

Derived terms

• seconde d’angle

Further reading

• “seconde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• encodes, encodés

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈkon.de/
• Rhymes: -onde
• Hyphenation: se‧cón‧de

Adjective

seconde f pl

1. feminine plural of secondo

Anagrams

• escendo

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French second.

Adjective

seconde

1. Alternative form of secunde (“after the first”)

Noun

seconde

1. Alternative form of secunde (“after the first”)

Etymology 2

From Old French seconde.

Noun

seconde

1. Alternative form of secunde (“sixtieth part of a minute”)