secondth

English

Etymology

From second +‎ -th (ordinal suffix), by analogy with fourth, fifth, etc. Compare the replacement of Early Modern English fift and sixt with fifth and sixth.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛkən(t)θ/

Adjective

secondth (not comparable)

  1. Nonstandard form of second.
    • 1619 August 2, [Whetstone's Almshouse Records]; republished in Charles William Mayo, editor, The Municipal Records of the Borough of Dorchester, Dorset‎[1], Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. Ltd., 1908, page 560:
      Emanuel, the secondth daye of August, 1619: A Record kept to all posterity that John Whettstone merchaunte, late of Rodden in the parishe of Abbotsburye. . . . .gave unto the Towne of Dorchester in the County of Dorset five hundred pounds to the buyldinge of an Almeshouse for poore folk […]
    • 1780 January 13, John Hancock, John Avery, On the Petition of the Select-Men of the Town of Stockbridge for the Interposicion of this Court […] ; republished in Records of the Town of Lee from Its Incorporation to A.D. 1801 […] ‎[2], Lee, Mass.: Press of the Valley Gleanes, 1900, page 311:
      Resolved that the Select-Men of Stockbridge Serve the Town-Clerk of the Town of Lee, with a Coppy of this Petition, with the Order of the Court thereon, at Least Fourteen Days Before the next sitting of the General Court to shew Cause if any they have, on the Secondth Wednesday of the next sitting of the General Court why those have not Pay'd their Taxes […]
    • 2001 June 5, J. Juez et al., “Early Detection and Diagnosis of Faults in an AC Motor Using Neuro Fuzzy Techniques: FasArt + Fuzzy k Nearest Neighbors”, in José Mira, Alberto Prieto, editors, Bio-Inspired Applications of Connectionism (Lecture notes in computer science; 2085)‎[3], Springer, →ISBN, page 576:
      The experimental results are summarized in Figure 1 where in the secondth column the detection time for each type of fault is shown.

Usage notes

  • In both speech and writing, secondth is more common in compound ordinals such as twenty-secondth than as a simple ordinal since their relative rarity makes them more susceptible to analogy.

Adverb

secondth (not comparable)

  1. Nonstandard form of second.

Noun

secondth (plural secondths)

  1. Nonstandard form of second.
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