secundus, secunda, secundum

Definitions for secundus

Wheelock's Latin

Adjective

1
second, favorable
English derivatives:
secondary

Oxford Latin Dictionary

Adjective

1
Going along with one, following. (of winds) blowing in the direction of one's course, favourable. (b) (of sails spread before a favourable wind). (c) (of a voyage course).
2
Going along with one, following. (of currents, tides) Moving with one; travelling with the current, downstream. (b) (of other things that offer no resistance to one's forward movement). (c) topog.) lying in the direction of one's travel.
3
Going along with one, following. (esp. pf deities, Fortune) Giving support to one's aims, showing goodwill, encouraging. (b) (of words, expressions of feeling). (c) (of circumstances, natural advantages, etc.) tending to favour a person or his designs; (neut. pl. as sb.) remedies (normally found helpful in a complaint). (d) (of omens) favourable, propitious.
4
Going along with one, following. (of an event or outcome, conditions, etc.) That is in accordance with one's desires, satisfactory, favourable. (b) (of a peson's affairs or activities, esp. mil.) proceeding favourably, attended with success; (esp. w. res, usu. pl.; res ~ae, attributively = success, prosperity, prosperity). (c) (Neut. pl. as sb.) = res ~ae.
5
Following in order. (as ordinal) The second in a sequence. (b) (in comp. nums., less usual than alter). (c) the second of a pair.

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Sentences with secundus

Latin to English

Ipse, ā sene secundō adiūtus, pecūniā carrentibus multās rēs dabat.Compare Having himself been helped by the second old man, he kept giving many things to those lacking money.

Quid est agrum bene colere? bene arare. Quid est secundum? arare.Compare What is good farming? Good plowing. What is the second thing? Plowing.

Puer tuus ad ego secundus vigilia venio.Compare Your servant came to me in the second watch.

Data sources

Notes

Definitions
Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 39.
P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1721.
Word frequencies
Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 126.

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Citation

Chicago (17th ed.)

Allo Contributors. "secundus, secunda, secundum (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified October 1, 2023. Accessed December 30, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/secundus-secunda-secundum.