"secondary" in seven languages
Meaningsecondary
Spanish
secundario
/sekunˈdaɾjo/
learned
French
secondaire
/səgɔ̃dɛʁ/
learned
The c is pronounced [g], as in second.
Italian
secondario
/sekonˈdarjo/
learned
Portuguese
secundário
/sekũˈdaɾju/
learned
Romanian
secundar
/sekunˈdar/
learned
Catalan
secundari
/səkunˈdaɾi/
learned
English
secondary
/ˈsɛkəndɛɹi/
from Latin/French · Latin SECUNDĀRIUS, partly via French
English → ItaliansecondarysecondarioCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
SECUNDĀRIUM‘of the second rank’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Secondary school is la secundaria (el instituto in Spain), le secondaire, la scuola secondaria. SECUNDUS first meant 'following', from SEQUĪ 'to follow'.
English relatives: second, secondary school
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In a sentence
- esEs un problema secundario.
- frC'est un problème secondaire.
- itÈ un problema secondario.
- ptÉ um problema secundário.
- roE o problemă secundară.
- caÉs un problema secundari.
- enThis is a secondary problem.
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