different between seconde vs seconds

English

Etymology

From French

Noun

seconde (plural secondes)

1. (fencing) The second defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, with the hand held in a prone position and the tip of the sword below the level of the guard.

Anagrams

• Cedenos, encodes

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French seconde, from Latin secunda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??k?n.d?/
• Hyphenation: se?con?de
• Rhymes: -?nd?

Noun

seconde f (plural seconden or secondes, diminutive secondje n or secondetje n)

1. second (a unit of time)

Derived terms

• milliseconde
• secondewijzer

Descendants

• Afrikaans: sekonde
• ? Indonesian: sekon
• ? West Frisian: sekonde

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.???d/

Etymology 1

Adjective

seconde

1. feminine singular of second

Etymology 2

The first sense is a borrowing from Latin (minuta) secunda.

Noun

seconde f (plural secondes)

1. second (for indicating time)

   Coordinate terms: minute, heure

2. (music) second (interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale)

Derived terms

• seconde d'angle

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• encodes, encodés

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -onde

Adjective

seconde f pl

1. feminine plural of secondo

Anagrams

• escendo

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French second.

Adjective

seconde

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

Noun

seconde

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

Etymology 2

From Old French seconde.

Noun

seconde

1. Alternative form of secunde (“sixtieth part of a minute”)

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: s??k?ndz, IPA^(key): /?s?k.?ndz/, /?s?k.?nts/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?k?ndz/
• Hyphenation: sec?onds

Noun

seconds

1. plural of second

Noun

seconds

1. A second helping, second serving of food for one person; refill of coffee or other drink.

2. An item of clothing that has failed quality control and is sold at a discount

3. Any article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; especially, a coarse or inferior kind of flour.

Synonyms

• (second serving): second helping

Translations

Verb

seconds

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of second

French

Adjective

seconds

1. plural of second

Noun

seconds m

1. plural of second