secundus

See also: Secundus

Latin

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Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sekʷondo- (literally “that follows”); equivalent to sequor (“to follow”) +‎ -undus.[1] The positive meanings "favourable, fair" come from the notion of the wind or current following you from behind.[2][3]

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /seˈkun.dus/, [s̠ɛˈkʊn̪d̪ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seˈkun.dus/, [seˈkun̪d̪us]
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Numeral

secundus (feminine secunda, neuter secundum); first/second-declension numeral

  1. second, the ordinal number after prīmus (“first”) and before tertius (“third”)

Declension

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Derived terms
  • secundī decennālēs

Descendants

Adjective

secundus (feminine secunda, neuter secundum, comparative secundior, superlative secundissimus); first/second-declension adjective

  1. next, following
    Synonym: posterior
  2. according to (with object in accusative case)
  3. second
  4. secondary, subordinate, inferior
    Synonym: posterior
  5. (nautical) favourable, fair (of weather, seas)
  6. (military) fortunate, lucky, victorious, successful (of battle--secundis proeliis)
    • Caesar, de Bello Gallico VII, 29:
      Errare, si qui in bello omnes secundos rerum proventus exspectent
      If whoever expects every events in the war to be favorable, erred
  7. (poetic) propitious, favorable, fortunate

Declension

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Descendants

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “sequor”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  2. Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (1985), “secundus”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), with additions and corrections of Jacques André, 4th edition, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 608
  3. The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., Clarendon Press, 1989. Volume XIV, page 825.

Further reading
  • “secundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “secundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • secundus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • secundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to have favourable, contrary, winds: ventis secundis, adversis uti
    • to be fortunate, lucky: fortuna secunda uti
    • to be puffed up by success; to be made arrogant by prosperity: rebus secundis efferri
    • the actor who plays the leading part: actor primarum (secundarum, tertiarum) partium
    • the dessert: secunda mensa (Att. 14. 6. 2)
    • to fight successfully: proeliis secundis uti
    • (ambiguous) with the stream; downstream: flumine secundo
  • “secundus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “secundus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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