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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English secunde, second, secound, secund, borrowed from Old French second, seond, from Latin secundus (“following, next in order”), from root of sequor (“I follow”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek?- (“to follow”). Doublet of secundo. Displaced native twoth and partially displaced native other (from Old English ?þer (“other; next; second”)).

Alternative forms

• (number-two): 2nd, 2d, IInd; (in names of monarchs and popes) II, II.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?k?nd/
• (US) enPR: s??k?nd, IPA^(key): /?s?k.(?)nd/, /?s?k.(?)nt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?s?k?nd/
• Hyphenation: sec?ond

Adjective

second (not comparable)

1. Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
3. Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.

Synonyms

• other

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

second (not comparable)

1. (with superlative) After the first; at the second rank.

2. After the first occurrence but before the third.

Translations

Noun

second (plural seconds)

1. Something that is number two in a series.
2. Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
3. The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
4. (usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.

5. (usually in the plural) An additional helping of food.

6. A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
7. (music) The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
8. The second gear of an engine.
9. (baseball) Second base.
10. The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
11. A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
    • 1995, Boy Scouts of Canada. National Council, The Cub Book

      Many packs have a sixer's council where the sixers, and sometimes the seconds, meet with Akela and some of the other leaders.

    Synonym: seconder

12. (informal) A second-class honours degree.

Related terms

• (music): secundal (adj.)

Translations

Verb

second (third-person singular simple present seconds, present participle seconding, simple past and past participle seconded)

1. (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See under #Etymology 3 for translations.)

2. To follow in the next place; to succeed.

   • In the method of nature, a low valley is immediately seconded with an ambitious hill.

   • Sin is usually seconded with sin.

3. (climbing) To climb after a lead climber.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English secunde, seconde, borrowed from Old French seconde, from Medieval Latin secunda, short for secunda pars minuta (“second diminished part (of the hour)”).

Alternative forms

• (SI unit of time): (abbreviations) s, sec; (symbols) s (SI and non-scientific usage), sec (in non-scientific usage only)
• (unit of angle): (abbreviations) arcsec, "

Pronunciation

• enPR: s??k?nd, IPA^(key): /?s?k.(?)nd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?k.(?)nd/, /?s?k.(?)nt/
• Hyphenation: sec?ond

Noun

second (plural seconds)

1. One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
2. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
3. (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.

Synonyms

• (unit of angle): second of arc, arcsecond
• (short, indeterminate amount of time): (colloquial) sec
• Appendix:Words used as placeholders to count seconds

Derived terms

• leap second
• millisecond
• nanosecond

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle French seconder, from Latin secund? (“assist, make favorable”).

Pronunciation

Transfer temporarily

• enPR: s?k?nd', IPA^(key): /s??k?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd
• Hyphenation: sec?ond

Assist, Agree

• enPR: s??k?nd, IPA^(key): /?s?k.(?)nd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?k.(?)nd/, /?s?k.(?)nt/
• Hyphenation: sec?ond

Verb

second (third-person singular simple present seconds, present participle seconding, simple past and past participle seconded)

1. (transitive, Britain) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
2. (transitive) To assist or support; to back.
3. (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from the English adjective above.)

4. (transitive, music) To accompany by singing as the second performer.

Derived terms

• secondment
• secondee

Translations

Noun

second (plural seconds)

1. One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
2. One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.

3. (obsolete) Aid; assistance; help.

Translations

Further reading

second on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• arcsecond on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• second on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (time)
• second (parliamentary procedure) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• second-hand goods on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Second in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

References

Anagrams

• CODENs, coends, condes, consed, decons, sconed

French

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation) 2^d, 2^e

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.???/

Adjective

second (feminine singular seconde, masculine plural seconds, feminine plural secondes)

1. second

Derived terms

• dans un second temps
• de seconde main
• état second
• second degré
• second souffle
• second violon
• Seconde Guerre Mondiale
• seconde nature

Related terms

• secondaire
• seconde

Synonyms

• (ordinal): deuxième

Usage notes

For added "precision and elegance", the French Academy recommends using second when only two items are being considered, reserving deuxième for other situations, i.e. when more than two items are being considered; although this rule is not mandatory. The Academy however advises against ever replacing second with deuxième in fixed idioms such as de seconde main or seconde nature.

Noun

second m (plural seconds)

1. assistant, first mate

Synonyms

• adjoint, aide, assistant

Derived terms

• seconder

References

• “second” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cédons, condés

Middle English

Adjective

second

1. Alternative form of secunde (“after the first”)

Noun

second

1. Alternative form of secunde (“after the first”)

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin secundus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??kunt/

Adjective

second m (oblique and nominative feminine singular seconde)

1. second

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: secunde
  • English: second
  • Scots: seicont
• French: second

English

Alternative forms

• favour (Commonwealth, Ireland)

Etymology

From Middle English favour, favor, faver, from Anglo-Norman favour, from mainland Old French favor, from Latin favor (“good will; kindness; partiality”), from fave? (“to be kind to”). Respelled in American English to more closely match its Latin etymon. Compare also Danish favør (“favor”), Irish fabhar (“favor”), from the same Romance source.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?fe?v?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?fe?v?/
• Rhymes: -e?v?(?)
• Hyphenation: fa?vor

Noun

favor (countable and uncountable, plural favors) (American spelling, alternative in Canada)

1. A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).

2. Goodwill; benevolent regard.
3. A small gift; a party favor.

   A marriage favour is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.

   • ca. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act IV, sc. 7:

     Here, Fluellen; wear thou this favour for me and

     stick it in thy cap: when Alencon and myself were

     down together, I plucked this glove from his helm […]

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackery, Vanity Fair, Chapter 22:

     The rain drove into the bride and bridegroom's faces as they passed to the chariot. The postilions' favours draggled on their dripping jackets.

4. Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.

   • I could not discover the lenity and favour of this sentence.

5. The object of regard; person or thing favoured.
6. (obsolete) Appearance; look; countenance; face.
7. (law) Partiality; bias.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)

8. (archaic) A letter, a written communication.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 68:

     I will now take some notice of your last favour; but being so far behind-hand with you, must be brief.

9. (obsolete) Anything worn publicly as a pledge of a woman's favor.
10. (obsolete, in the plural) Lovelocks.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)

Usage notes

• Favor is the standard US spelling, and an alternative in Canada. Favour is the standard spelling in Canada and outside North America.
• English speakers usually "do someone a favor" (rather than *"make them a favor", which would be sense 3 only). See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of favor collocated with these words.

Antonyms

• disfavor
• discriminate
• discrimination
• harm
• sabotage
• unfavor

Synonyms

• aid
• help
• lend a hand
• token

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

favor (third-person singular simple present favors, present participle favoring, simple past and past participle favored) (US, alternative in Canada, transitive)

1. To look upon fondly; to prefer.
   • 1611, Luke 1:28, King James version

     And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.

   • 2007, Bert Casper, Shadow Upon the Dream: Book 1: Barrûn, page 537:

     […] alone, without having to favor his right, uninjured leg, […]

2. To encourage, conduce to
3. To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.

4. To treat with care.

5. (in dialects, including Southern US and Louisiana) To resemble, to look like (another person).
   • 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:

     ‘Mandy?’ he said, and stared at the girl. ‘Don't favor her too much.’ ‘Favors her dad,’ Latha said, and looked at him.

Synonyms

• abet
• assist
• endorse
• sanction

Antonyms

• disfavor
• discriminate

Derived terms

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin favor, attested from the 14th century.

Pronunciation

Noun

favor m or f (plural favors)

1. favour

Derived terms

• a favor de
• afavorir
• en favor de
• per favor

References

Further reading

• “favor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “favor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “favor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese favor.

Noun

favor

1. favour
2. pleasure

Latin

Etymology

From fave? (“I am well disposed or inclined toward, favor, countenance, befriend”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fa.u?or/, [?fäu??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fa.vor/, [?f??v?r]

Noun

favor m (genitive fav?ris); third declension

1. good will, inclination, partiality, favor
2. support

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• favor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• favor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• favor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• favor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
• favor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Norn

Alternative forms

• fa vor (rare)

Etymology

From Old Norse faðir (“father”) + vár (“our”), from Proto-Germanic *fad?r + *unseraz, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r. Compare Shetlandic fy vor.

Noun

favor

1. (Orkney) our father

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin favor.

Noun

favor f (plural favors)

1. favor

Derived terms

• favorable
• favorir
• favorisar
• favorit
• favoritisme
• favorablament
• afavorir
• en favor de
• a favor de
• per favor
• faire una favor
• dar les favors

Antonyms

• desfavor

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin favor (“favour; good will”), from fave? (“I favour”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?oweh? (“to notice”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /f?.?vo?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fa.?vo?/, [f?.?vo?]
• Hyphenation: fa?vor

Noun

favor m (plural favores)

1. favour (instance of voluntarily assisting someone)
2. favour; goodwill (benevolent regard)

   Synonyms: (obsolete) favorança, graça, mercê

Derived terms

• a favor de
• em favor de
• fazer o favor de
• por favor

Related terms

Adverb

favor (not comparable)

1. (before a verb in the infinitive) please (seen on warnings and the like)

Romanian

Noun

favor n (plural favoruri)

1. Alternative form of favoare

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin favor (genitive singular fav?ris).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?bo?/, [fa???o?]
• Hyphenation: fa?vor

Noun

favor m (plural favores)

1. favor/favour

Derived terms

Related terms

• favorable
• favorecer
• favoritismo
• favorito

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian favore

Noun

favor m (plural favuri)

1. favour