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English
Etymology
First attested in 1860; from the Latin antepaenultima (“antepenult”), a feminine substantive of antepaenultimus (“antepenultimate”).
Pronunciation
Noun
antepenultime sg
- = antepenult, antepenultima
- 1860, I.J.G. Scheller and George Walker , A Copious Latin Grammar (1825), in: Leonhard Tafel and Rudolph L. Tafel, Latin Pronunciation and the Latin Alphabet, page 142
- In polysyllables the penultime is accented if the syllable be long, but in all other cases the accent is laid upon the antepenultime.
2008, Annals, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States, XXI:xlix-l, page 104:In surnames from words extended with diminutive suffixes…where the stress is always on the antepenultime.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:antepenultime.
- (rare) Antepenultimate position.
1986, Stephen Adolphe Wurm, editor, Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, II, page 114:In antepenultime the non-neutral vowels /a/, /i/, /u/ alternate with the neutral shorter /ə/, and the neutral vowel in antepenultime and penultime alternates with zero.
- (rare) Any thing occurring as the antepenultimate item in a series.
2004, Sociobiology, XLIV:i, page 328:Mandibles with 4 teeth decreasing in size from the apical teeth, the antepenultime (subbasal) smallest.
Latin
Adjective
antepēnultime
- vocative masculine singular of antepēnultimus