sekunde

See also: Sekunde, sekundē, and sekundė

Latvian

From Medieval Latin secunda, short for secunda pars minuta (“second diminished part (of the hour)”).

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sekunde 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)

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sekunde

Wikipedia ^sw

sekunde class IX (plural sekunde class X)

^ 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.”