sekunde

See also: Sekunde, sekundē, and sekundė

Latvian

From Medieval Latin secunda, short for secunda pars minuta (“second diminished part (of the hour)”).

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sekunde f (5th declension)

second (SI unit of time, 1/60 of a minute)
minūtei ir sešdesmit sekundes ― a minute has sixty seconds

tas ilga dažas sekundes ― that lasted a few seconds

šis indikators mirgo reizi sekundē ― this light flashes once per second
second of arc (unit of angular measurement, 1/60 of a minute of arc)
šī leņķa lielums ir viena sekunde ― the size of this angle is one second (of arc)

Declension of sekunde (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	sekunde	sekundes
accusative (akuzatīvs)	sekundi	sekundes
genitive (ģenitīvs)	sekundes	sekunžu
dative (datīvs)	sekundei	sekundēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	sekundi	sekundēm
locative (lokatīvs)	sekundē	sekundēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	sekunde	sekundes

Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:

sekunde

Wikipedia ^sw

sekunde (n class, plural sekunde)

^ Mugane, John M. (2015) The Story of Swahili (Africa in World History), Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 54: “The English-derived Swahili words for units of distance and time include futi (foot), inchi (inch), kilometa (kilometer), maili (mile), yadi (yard), and sekunde (second), all spelled according to their Bantu adaptations.”