• lobut@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    Seconds is one of the weirdest to me.

    “Minute” comes from Latin: pars minuta prima, meaning ‘first small part’, i.e. first division of the hour – dividing it into sixty, and “second” comes from pars minuta secunda, ‘second small part’, dividing again into sixty.