secundus

• (numeral): IIdus (contraction)

From Proto-Italic *sekʷontinos; equivalent to sequor (“to follow”) +‎ -undus.[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /seˈkun.dus/, [sɛˈkʊn.dʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈkun.dus/

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

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

First/second declension.

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

1. next, following
2. second
3. secondary
4. subordinate
5. (nautical) favourable, fair (of weather, seas)
6. (military) fortunate, lucky, victorious, successful (of battle--secundis proeliis)

First/second declension.

• secundārius
• sequī

• 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, 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray