secondly

English

Alternative forms

• 2ndly
• 2dly, 2ᵈˡʸ (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-der.

Proto-Italic *sekʷondo-

Latin secunduslbor.

Old French secondbor.

Middle English secunde

English second

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English secondly

From second + -ly.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: sĕkʹəndlē, IPA^(key): /ˈsɛk.(ə)ndli/, /ˈsɛk.(ə)ntli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛkəndli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: sec‧ond‧ly

Adverb

secondly (not comparable)

1. In the second place.
   • 1969 April, J. P. Day, “Hope”, in American Philosophical Quarterly, volume 6, number 2, →JSTOR, page 90:

     Secondly, Hope has two important properties which genuine emotions also have.

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:

     Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants. […] Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.

Synonyms

• (less jarring for many speakers) second

Translations

in the second place

• Arabic: ثَانِيًا (ṯāniyan)
• Azerbaijani: ikincisi
• Bashkir: икенсенән (ekinsinän)
• Belarusian: па-друго́е (pa-druhóje)
• Bulgarian: вто́ро (vtóro)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 二來 / 二来 (zh) (èrlái), 第二 (zh) (dì'èr)

• Czech: za druhé
• Esperanto: due (eo)
• Estonian: teiseks
• Finnish: toiseksi (fi)
• French: deuxièmement (fr)
• German: zweitens (de)
• Greek: δεύτερον (défteron)
• Hungarian: másodsorban (hu)
• Ido: duesme (io)
• Italian: secondamente
• Japanese: 第二に (ja) (だいにに, daini ni)
• Kazakh: екіншіден (ekinšiden)
• Korean: 둘째로 (ko) (duljjaero)
• Macedonian: второ (vtoro)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: for det annet

• Persian: ثانیاً (sâniyan)
• Polish: po drugie (pl)
• Portuguese: segundamente
• Russian: во-вторы́х (ru) (vo-vtorýx)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дру̏го̄

  Latin: drȕgō (sh)

• Slovak: po druhé
• Slovene: drugič
• Spanish: en segundo lugar m
• Tajik: сониян (soniyan)
• Ukrainian: по-дру́ге (po-drúhe)
• Uzbek: ikkinchidan (uz), ikkilamchi (uz)
• Yakut: иккиһинэн (ikkihinen)
• Yiddish: צווייטנס (tsveytns)

Anagrams

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