secundus
Appearance
See also: Secundus
Latin
[edit]20[a], [b], [c], [d], [e] | ||
← 1 | II 2 |
3 → |
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Cardinal: duo Ordinal: secundus, alter Adverbial: bis Proportional: duplus Multiplier: duplex, alterplex, biplex Distributive: bīnus Collective: bīniō Fractional: dīmidius, sēmis |
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *sekʷondo- (literally “that follows”); equivalent to sequor (“to follow”) + -undus.[1] The positive meanings "favourable, fair" come from the notion of the wind or current following you from behind.[2][3]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /seˈkun.dus/, [s̠ɛˈkʊn̪d̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seˈkun.dus/, [seˈkun̪d̪us]
Numeral
[edit]secundus (feminine secunda, neuter secundum); first/second-declension numeral
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | secundus | secunda | secundum | secundī | secundae | secunda | |
genitive | secundī | secundae | secundī | secundōrum | secundārum | secundōrum | |
dative | secundō | secundae | secundō | secundīs | |||
accusative | secundum | secundam | secundum | secundōs | secundās | secunda | |
ablative | secundō | secundā | secundō | secundīs | |||
vocative | secunde | secunda | secundum | secundī | secundae | secunda |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Adjective
[edit]secundus (feminine secunda, neuter secundum, comparative secundior, superlative secundissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- next, following
- Synonym: posterior
- according to (with object in accusative case)
- second
- secondary, subordinate, inferior
- Synonym: posterior
- (nautical) favourable, fair (of weather, seas)
- (military) fortunate, lucky, victorious, successful (of battle--secundis proeliis)
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.29:
- Errare, si qui in bello omnes secundos rerum proventus exspectent
- If whoever expects every events in the war to be favorable, erred
- Errare, si qui in bello omnes secundos rerum proventus exspectent
- (poetic) propitious, favorable, fortunate
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | secundus | secunda | secundum | secundī | secundae | secunda | |
genitive | secundī | secundae | secundī | secundōrum | secundārum | secundōrum | |
dative | secundō | secundae | secundō | secundīs | |||
accusative | secundum | secundam | secundum | secundōs | secundās | secunda | |
ablative | secundō | secundā | secundō | secundīs | |||
vocative | secunde | secunda | secundum | secundī | secundae | secunda |
Descendants
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sequor”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “secundus”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots[2] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 608
- ^ The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., Clarendon Press, 1989. Volume XIV, page 825.
Further reading
[edit]- “secundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “secundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- secundus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- secundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have favourable, contrary, winds: ventis secundis, adversis uti
- to be fortunate, lucky: fortuna secunda uti
- to be puffed up by success; to be made arrogant by prosperity: rebus secundis efferri
- the actor who plays the leading part: actor primarum (secundarum, tertiarum) partium
- the dessert: secunda mensa (Att. 14. 6. 2)
- to fight successfully: proeliis secundis uti
- (ambiguous) with the stream; downstream: flumine secundo
- to have favourable, contrary, winds: ventis secundis, adversis uti
- “secundus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “secundus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Categories:
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- Latin terms suffixed with -undus
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- Latin ordinal numbers
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