segundo – Portuguese noun declension

Portuguese noun forms of segundo

Noun: segundo
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular msegundo
Plural msegundos

Sample Sentences

  • Um minuto tem sessenta segundos. (One minute has sixty seconds.)
  • O relâmpago durou um segundo. (The lightning lasted for one second.)
  • O segundo não conseguiu ultrapassar o primeiro. (The second one was unable to overtake the first one.)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese segundo, from Latin secundus, probably taken as a semi-learned term. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'segundo', Latin Nouns 'secundus'.

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