different between set vs second

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?t, IPA^(key): /s?t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophone: sett

Etymology 1

From Middle English setten, from Old English settan, from Proto-Germanic *satjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti, causative of *sed- (“to sit”).

Verb

set (third-person singular simple present sets, present participle setting, simple past set, past participle set or (dialectal) setten)

1. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.

   Synonyms: put, lay, set down

   Antonym: pick up

2. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.

   • The Lord set a mark upon Cain.

3. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.

   • The Lord thy God will set thee on high.

   • I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother.

   • 1827, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hamlet

     Every incident sets him thinking.

4. (transitive) To start (a fire).

   Synonym: light

   Antonyms: extinguish, put out, quench

5. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.

6. (transitive) To determine or settle.

7. (transitive) To adjust.

   (i.e. I programmed it at that hour to go off at a later time)

   (i.e. I programmed it earlier to go off at that hour.)

8. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
9. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.

10. (transitive) To introduce or describe.

11. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.

12. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).

13. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
14. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
15. (transitive) To arrange (type).

16. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.

17. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
18. (intransitive) To solidify.

19. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.

20. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.

21. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
22. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
    • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V

      The king is set from London, and the scene is now transported, gentles, to Southampton

23. (transitive, botany) To produce after pollination.
    • 2012, Daniel Chamovitz, What a Plant Knows, p. 155

      Many fruit trees will only flower and set fruit following a cold winter.

24. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
    • 1906, Canada. Dept. of Agriculture. Fruit Branch, Fruit crop report

      In the Annapolis Valley, in spite of an irregular bloom, the fruit has set well and has, as yet, been little affected by scab.

25. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
    • 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, page 227:

      And if Mrs. Garner didn't need me right there in the kitchen, I could get a chair and you and me could set out there while I did the vegetables.

26. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
27. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.

28. To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
    • 1654, Henry Hammond, Of Fundamentals...

      If he set industriously and sincerely to perform the commands of Christ, he can have no ground of doubting but it shall prove successful to him.

29. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
    • 1682, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe

      Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
30. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.

31. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.

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

32. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.

33. (intransitive, country dancing) To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.

34. To place or fix in a setting.
35. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.

36. To extend and bring into position; to spread.

37. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.

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

38. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.

39. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
40. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
41. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.

    • High on their heads, with jewels richly set, / Each lady wore a radiant coronet.

    • 1815. William Wordsworth, Poems of the Imagination

      pastoral dales thin set with modern farms

42. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
43. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.

44. (Scotland) To suit; to become.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English set, sette, from Old English set (“seat, place of residence, camp, settlement, entrenchment, stable, pen”), from Proto-West Germanic *set (“seat”), from Proto-Germanic *set? (“seat”).

Noun

set (plural sets)

1. A punch for setting nails in wood.

2. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.

3. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
4. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
5. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
6. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
7. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
8. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
   • That was but civil war, an equal set.

9. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.

10. A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
11. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
12. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
13. A young oyster when first attached.
14. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
15. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
16. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.

17. The pattern of a tartan, etc.
18. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
19. The full number of eggs set under a hen.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English sett, from Old English ?esett, past participle of settan.

Adjective

set (comparative more set, superlative most set)

1. Fixed in position.
2. Rigid, solidified.
3. Ready, prepared.

4. Intent, determined (to do something).
5. Prearranged.

6. Fixed in one’s opinion.

7. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.

Synonyms

• (intent, determined): determined, intent
• (prearranged): dictated, prearranged, predetermined, prescribed, specified
• (fixed in one's opinion): fixed, rigid

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 4

From Middle English set, sete, sette (“that which is set, the act of setting, seat”), from Old English set (“setting, seat, a place where people remain, habitation, camp, entrenchment, a place where animals are kept, stall, fold”) and Old English seten (“a set, shoot, slip, branch; a nursery, plantation; that which is planted or set; a cultivated place; planting, cultivation; a setting, putting; a stopping; occupied land”), related to Old English settan (“to set”). Compare Middle Low German gesette (“a set, suite”), Old English gesetl (“assembly”). According to Skeat, in senses denoting a group of things or persons, representing an alteration of sept, from Old French sette (“a religious sect”), from Medieval Latin secta (“retinue”), from Latin secta (“a faction”). See sect. It is quite possible that the modern word is more of a merger between both, however.

Noun

set (plural sets)

1. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
2. A rudimentary fruit.
3. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Adeline

     the set of day
4. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
   • 1840, Thomas De Quincey, Style

     Here and there, amongst individuals alive to the particular evils of the age, and watching the very set of the current, there may have been even a more systematic counteraction applied to the mischief.
5. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.)

6. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.

7. An object made up of several parts.

8. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
9. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
10. A group of people, usually meeting socially.

11. The scenery for a film or play.
12. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
13. (exercise) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
    • 1974, Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 22.

      This is the fourth set of benchpresses.

15. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
16. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
17. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
18. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
19. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.

20. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
21. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).

Synonyms

• (close of the day): dusk, eve, evening, sundown, sunset
• (general movement): direction, drift, heading, motion, movement, path, tendency, trend
• (matching collection of similar things): suite
• (set theory, in plural): set theory
• (group of people, usually meeting socially): club, coterie
• (scenery): scenery
• (performance of several musical pieces): gig, session
• (drum kit): drums, drum kit, drum set
• (three of a kind): three of a kind

Hypernyms

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 5

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

set (third-person singular simple present sets, present participle setting, simple past and past participle setted)

1. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
   • 2008, Patricia Murphy, Robert McCormick, Knowledge and Practice: Representations and Identities

     In setted classes, students are brought together because they are believed to be of similar 'ability'. Yet, setted lessons are often conducted as though students are not only similar, but identical—in terms of ability, preferred learning style and pace of working.

References

Anagrams

• -est, EST, ETS, ETs, Est, Est., STE, StE, Ste, Ste., TEs, TSE, Tse, est, est., tse

Afrikaans

Noun

set (plural [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan, from Latin septem (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *sept??.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?s?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Numeral

set m or f

1. seven

Noun

set m (plural sets)

1. seven

Derived terms

• set pecats capitals

Etymology 2

From Latin sitis, from Proto-Indo-European *d?g??ítis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?s?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?s?t/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?set/

Noun

set f (plural sets)

1. thirst

Derived terms

• assedegar
• sedegar
• sedejar

Further reading

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

Crimean Tatar

Noun

set

1. sofa, couch, settee

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t/
• Homophone: sed
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From English set.

Noun

set m

1. (tennis, volleyball) set (part of a match in sports like tennis and volleyball)

Declension

Synonyms

• sada f

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

set

1. genitive plural of sto

Further reading

• set in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• set in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Verb

set

1. past participle of se

Derived terms

• sådan set

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English set.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t/
• Hyphenation: set
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophone: Seth

Noun

set m (plural sets, diminutive setje n)

1. A set (collection of objects belonging together).
2. A set (installation consisting of multiple appliances).
3. (tennis) A set (tennis match).
4. A film set (filming location).

   Synonym: filmset

Derived terms

• jetset
• kledingset
• loungeset
• pannenset
• setpoint
• stereoset

Eastern Durango Nahuatl

Noun

set

1. ice

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t/
• Homophones: cet, cette, sept, sète

Noun

set m (plural sets)

1. (tennis) set

Synonyms

• manche

Derived terms

• balle de set

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• est, Ste., tes

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?t]
• Hyphenation: sèt

Etymology 1

From English set, alteration of sept, from Old French sette (“a religious sect”), from Medieval Latin secta (“retinue”), from Latin secta (“a faction”).

Noun

sèt (first-person possessive setku, second-person possessive setmu, third-person possessive setnya)

1. (sports) set, group of games counting as a unit toward a match.

   Synonym: babak

2. set,
   1. a matching collection of similar things.
   2. a collection of various objects for a particular purpose.

   Synonyms: perangkat, setel

3. set, an object made up of several parts.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From English set, from Middle English setten, from Old English settan, from Proto-Germanic *satjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti, causative of *sed- (“to sit”).

Verb

sèt

1. to set
   1. to put in a specified condition or state.
   2. to adjust.
   3. to prepare.
   4. to arrange.

   Synonym: mengeset

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Clipping of strategi (“strategy”)

Noun

set (first-person possessive setku, second-person possessive setmu, third-person possessive setnya)

1. (colloquial) trick; act; strategy

   Synonyms: muslihat, tindak, strategi

Further reading

• “set” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English set.

Noun

set m (invariable)

1. set (group of things in maths, tennis, cinema, etc.)

Anagrams

• est

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin septem.

Adjective

set

1. seven

Noun

set m (uncountable)

1. seven

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /set/, [s??t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /set/, [s?t?]

Conjunction

set

1. Alternative form of sed
   • c. 1300, Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris
   • sexies viginti petre faciunt carrum plumbi scilicet magnum carrum London’ set carrus del Peek est multo minus.
     • Six times twenty stone make the load of lead, scilicet the great London load, but the load of Peek is much less.

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s?t]

Verb

set

1. supine of se?

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French sept.

Numeral

set

1. seven

Michif

Etymology

From French sept.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s?t]

Numeral

set

1. seven

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Verb

set

1. present tense of setja, setje, setta and sette
2. imperative of setja and setje

Etymology 2

Verb

set

1. (non-standard since 1938) past participle of sjå

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin sitis, from Proto-Indo-European *d?g??ítis.

Noun

set f or m (plural sets)

1. thirst

Numeral

set (Limousin)

1. seven

Alternative forms

• sèt

Derived terms

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, ?ISBN, page 910.

Old English

Etymology

Compare the verb settan. Compare Old Norse sæti (whence modern English seat), Old High German gesazi (German Gesäß), Middle Dutch gesaete, from Proto-Germanic *s?tij?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /set/

Noun

set n

1. seat

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• ?eset

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin septem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?t/

Numeral

set

1. seven

Descendants

• Middle French: sept
  • French: sept
• Norman: sept, saept
• Walloon: set

Etymology 2

see savoir

Verb

set

1. third-person singular present indicative of savoir

Descendants

• French: sait

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish sed and Portuguese sede and Kabuverdianu sedi.

Noun

set

1. thirst

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin septem, from Proto-Italic *septem. Cognates include Italian sette and French sept.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t/

Numeral

set

1. seven

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t/

Etymology 1

From English set.

Noun

set m inan

1. (badminton, tennis, volleyball) set (part of the game in badminton, tennis, or volleyball)

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

set f

1. genitive plural of seta

Further reading

• set in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• set in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English set.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.t(?)(i)/
• Rhymes: -?t(?)i

Noun

set m (plural sets)

1. set (group of things in maths, tennis, cinema, etc.)

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin septem, from Proto-Indo-European *sept??.

Number

set

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) seven

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) siat
• (Sutsilvan) seat

Etymology 2

From Latin sitis, from Proto-Indo-European *d?g??ítis (“perishing, decrease”).

Noun

set f

1. (Sutsilvan) thirst

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) said
• (Sursilvan) seit
• (Surmiran) seid

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English set.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?set/, [?set?]

Noun

set m (plural sets)

1. (tennis) set

Further reading

• “set” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English set.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t?/
• Homophones: sett, sätt

Noun

set n

1. a set (matching collection of items)
2. a set (in tennis)

Declension

See also

• sett
• sätt
• tågsätt

Anagrams

• est, tes

Walloon

Etymology

From Latin septem, from Proto-Indo-European *sept??.

Numeral

set

1. seven

Welsh

Verb

set (not mutable)

1. Contraction of baset.

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse sæti, from Proto-Germanic *s?tij?. Confer the English seat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sè?t]

  Rhymes: -è?t

Noun

set n (definite singular sete, definite plural seta)

1. seat, bench
2. haycock

Derived terms

• höyset (“haycock”)
• snikkarset (“workbench”)

Verb

set (preterite seett, supine sett)

1. to cock hay

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

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• 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