seconde
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See also: secondé
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French.
Noun
[edit]seconde (plural secondes)
- (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
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French seconde, from Latin secunda.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]seconde f (plural seconden or secondes, diminutive secondje n or secondetje n)
- second (a unit of time)
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]seconde
Etymology 2
[edit]The first sense is a borrowing from Latin (minuta) secunda.
Noun
[edit]seconde f (plural secondes)
- second (for indicating time)
- 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
- (music) second (interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “seconde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]seconde f pl
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old French second.
Adjective
[edit]seconde
- Alternative form of secunde (“after the first”)
Noun
[edit]seconde
- Alternative form of secunde (“after the first”)
Etymology 2
[edit]From Old French seconde.
Noun
[edit]seconde
- Alternative form of secunde (“sixtieth part of a minute”)
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