sekúnda
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Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Medieval Latin secunda, short for secunda pars minuta (“second diminished part (of the hour)”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɛːkunta
Noun
[edit]sekúnda f (genitive singular sekúndu, nominative plural sekúndur)
Declension
[edit]declension of sekúnda
f-w1 | singular | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | sekúnda | sekúndan | sekúndur | sekúndurnar |
accusative | sekúndu | sekúnduna | sekúndur | sekúndurnar |
dative | sekúndu | sekúndunni | sekúndum | sekúndunum |
genitive | sekúndu | sekúndunnar | sekúndna | sekúndnanna |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- sekúnda in Hólmarsson et al.: Íslensk-ensk orðabók. 1989.
- “sekúnda” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)