seconde

From French.

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.

• Cedenos, encodes

Borrowed from French seconde, from Latin secunda.

• IPA^(key): /ˌsəˈkɔn.də/

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• Hyphenation: se‧con‧de
• Rhymes: -ɔndə

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

1. second (a unit of time)

• Afrikaans: sekonde
• → Caribbean Javanese: sekon
• → Indonesian: sekon
• → West Frisian: sekonde

• IPA^(key): /sə.ɡɔ̃d/

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seconde

1. feminine singular of second

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

seconde f (plural secondes)

1. second (for indicating time)

   Coordinate terms: minute, heure

   • 2018, Zaz (lyrics and music), “J'aime, j'aime”:

     Quelqu’un quelque part au bout du monde qui pense à la même seconde à la même chose que moi

     Someone somewhere at the end of the world who thinks at the same second of the same thing as me

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

• seconde d’angle

• “seconde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• encodes, encodés

• IPA^(key): /seˈkon.de/
• Rhymes: -onde
• Hyphenation: se‧cón‧de

seconde f pl

1. feminine plural of secondo

• escendo

From Old French second.

seconde

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

seconde

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

From Old French seconde.

seconde

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