Noun: second
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | second |
| Plural m | seconds |
Sample Sentences
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Je m'attachai aux pas de miss Harriet et lui servis de second dans le classement du linge. (I followed Miss Harriet and assisted her in sorting the linen.) [1874, Gobineau, Pléiades:]
Nouns inflected like second
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French secunt, second, segont, borrowed as a semi-learned term from Latin secundus (“second”); related to sequi (“follow”). Doublet of son (“bran”), which was inherited. See: Latin Nouns '
secundus'.
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