second-hand

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See also: second hand and secondhand

English

Pronunciation

Adjective

second-hand (not comparable)

  1. Alternative spelling of secondhand.
    • 1837, L E L, “Gossipping”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides.  In Three Volumes.">…], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 93:
      Her youth had passed in intrigues and vanities, and she still lived among them at second-hand: she now talked what she formerly did.

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English second-hand. Compare German secondhand and Russian сѐконд-хе́нд (sèkond-xénd).

Adjective

second-hand m or f or n (indeclinable)

  1. second-hand

Declension

Declension of second-hand (invariable)
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite second-hand second-hand second-hand second-hand
definite
genitive-
dative
indefinite second-hand second-hand second-hand second-hand
definite

Noun

second-hand n (uncountable)

  1. second-hand

Declension

Declension of second-hand
singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative second-hand second-handul
genitive-dative second-hand second-handului
vocative second-handule