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segundo

Pronunciation: /seˈɡundo/

“segundo” is a Spanish word. Its 4 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. second (after the first)

noun

  1. second (unit of time)
  2. second (short amount of time)
  3. assistant

In Spanish

  1. Que ocurre o se encuentra después del primero en una serie. Ordinal del dos.
  2. Unidad de tiempo en el sistema internacional, definido como la duración de 9,192,631,770 períodos de radiación, que corresponde a la transición entre dos niveles del átomo de cesio-133. La sesentava parte de un minuto.
  3. Lapso muy corto de tiempo.
  4. Cada uno de los sesenta segmentos en que se divide un minuto (sesentavo) de círculo o circunferencia.

Etymology

Inherited from Latin secundus with, per Coromines, a 'semi-learned' treatment of the stressed vowel (*segondo would have been expected otherwise). Doublet of según. Related to seguir (“follow”).

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