δεύτερος

Uncertain. Traditionally viewed as a δύο (dúo, “two”) + -τερος (-teros, comparative suffix), but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dews-, the root of δεύομαι (deúomai, “to be inferior”).

δεύτερος • (deúteros)

1. second of two
   1. conjoined with εἷς (heîs) or other numerals: another, a second
2. (of things set in order) second, next, another
   1. (modifying a noun of time) after [+genitive = something], next
   2. (connected with ranking) next best [+ μετά (accusative) = after something or someone]
   3. (of quality) inferior
   4. less important, secondary [+genitive = than, to something or someone]
   5. δεύτερος οὐδενός (deúteros oudenós): second to none

• English: deutero-, Deuteronomy, deuterocanonical, deuterium

• δεύτερος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δεύτερος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• δεύτερος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• δεύτερος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• δεύτερος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• δεύτερος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
• δεύτερος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1208 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • next best idem, page 557.
  • second idem, page 746.
  • secondary idem, page 747.
  • subordinate idem, page 831.
  • subservient idem, page 832.
  • subsidiary idem, page 832.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195083458, § 398.2
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, ISBN 9789004174207

• IPA^(key): /ˈðefteɾos/

δεύτερος • (défteros) m (feminine δεύτερη or δευτέρα, neuter δεύτερο)

1. second (ordinal numeral)

   Ήρθε δεύτερος στο Μαραθώνιο. ― Írthe défteros sto Marathónio. ― He came second in the marathon.

2. inferior, seconds

   δεύτερης ποιότητας ― défteris poiótitas ― inferior quality

• There are alternative learned forms:

  δευτέρου (deftérou) (masculine and neuter genitive singular)

  δευτέρα (deftéra) (feminine nominative, accusative, and vocative singular)

  δευτέρας (deftéras) (feminine genitive singular)

  δευτέρων (deftéron) (genitive plural)

• Greek number and measurement