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:
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