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English
Etymology
pre- + ante- + penultima
Noun
preantepenultima
- (poetry) The last syllable but three (of a word or other utterance); the fourth-to-last syllable.
1825, Samuel Oliver, A General Critical Grammar of the Inglish Language, page 337:[…] receiving the principal accent on the penultima, the word necessarily takes the secondary accent on the preantepenultima.