secundus
Latin
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Cardinal : duo Ordinal : secundus Adverbial : bis Multiplier : duplex Distributive : bīnī | ||
Alternative forms
- (numeral): IIdus (contraction)
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *sekʷontinos; equivalent to sequor (“to follow”) + -undus.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /seˈkun.dus/, [s̠ɛˈkʊn̪d̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seˈkun.dus/, [seˈkun̪d̪us]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Numeral
secundus (feminine secunda, neuter secundum); first/second-declension numeral
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | secundus | secunda | secundum | secundī | secundae | secunda | |
Genitive | secundī | secundae | secundī | secundōrum | secundārum | secundōrum | |
Dative | secundō | secundō | secundīs | ||||
Accusative | secundum | secundam | secundum | secundōs | secundās | secunda | |
Ablative | secundō | secundā | secundō | secundīs | |||
Vocative | secunde | secunda | secundum | secundī | secundae | secunda |
Descendants
Adjective
secundus (feminine secunda, neuter secundum, comparative secundior, superlative secundissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- next, following
- second
- secondary
- subordinate
- (nautical) favourable, fair (of weather, seas)
- (military) fortunate, lucky, victorious, successful (of battle--secundis proeliis)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | secundus | secunda | secundum | secundī | secundae | secunda | |
Genitive | secundī | secundae | secundī | secundōrum | secundārum | secundōrum | |
Dative | secundō | secundō | secundīs | ||||
Accusative | secundum | secundam | secundum | secundōs | secundās | secunda | |
Ablative | secundō | secundā | secundō | secundīs | |||
Vocative | secunde | secunda | secundum | secundī | secundae | secunda |
Descendants
Related terms
References
- “secundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “secundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- secundus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- secundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have favourable, contrary, winds: ventis secundis, adversis uti
- to be fortunate, lucky: fortuna secunda uti
- to be puffed up by success; to be made arrogant by prosperity: rebus secundis efferri
- the actor who plays the leading part: actor primarum (secundarum, tertiarum) partium
- the dessert: secunda mensa (Att. 14. 6. 2)
- to fight successfully: proeliis secundis uti
- (ambiguous) with the stream; downstream: flumine secundo
- to have favourable, contrary, winds: ventis secundis, adversis uti
- “secundus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “secundus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- ^ The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., Clarendon Press, 1989.
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