sekunde

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See also: Sekunde, sekundē, and sekundė

Latvian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

šis indika- tors mirgo reizi sekundē

sekunde f (5th declension)

  1. 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
  2. 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)

Declension

Declension of sekunde (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) sekunde sekundes
accusative (akuzatīvs) sekundi sekundes
genitive (ģenitīvs) sekundes sekunžu
dative (datīvs) sekundei sekundēm
instrumental (instrumentālis) sekundi sekundēm
locative (lokatīvs) sekundē sekundēs
vocative (vokatīvs) sekunde sekundes

See also

Swahili

Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Borrowed from English second or German Sekunde.

Pronunciation

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Noun

sekunde (n class, plural sekunde)

  1. second (sixtieth of a minute)

References

  1. ^ 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.”
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