sekunde

See also: Sekunde, sekundē, and sekundė

Latvian

Etymology

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

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

• minūte
• stunda

Swahili

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)