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   Yoïn van Spijk (yvanspijk@toot.community)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 10:18:17 JST Yoïn van Spijk

   Why is 1/60 of a minute called a 'second', just like the ordinal number that goes with 'two'?

   It's because a second is the second subdivision of an hour, a minute being the first.

   The word 'minute' in turn simply comes from the Latin word for "small (part)".

   Here's the entire story: