secondth

Nonstandard form of second.

Adjective

  1. Nonstandard form of second.
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • The experimental results are summarized in Figure 1 where in the secondth column the detection time for each type of fault is shown. - 2001 June 5, J. Juez et al., “Early Detection and Diagnosis of Faults in an AC Motor...

Origin

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.

Adverb

  1. Nonstandard form of second.

Noun

  1. Nonstandard form of second.

Forms

secondths