secondly

secondly

English

Alternative forms

• 2ndly
• 2dly, 2ᵈˡʸ (obsolete)

Etymology

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.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →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 (ikensenän) 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) Hungarian: másodsorban Ido: duesme (io) Italian: secondamente Japanese: 第二に (ja) (だいにに, daini ni) Kazakh: екіншіден (ekınşıden) 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 Roman: 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

• condyles