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English
Etymology
Nominal sense attested since 1746; adjectival sense attested since 1791: pre- + antepenultimate.
Pronunciation
Noun
preantepenultimate (plural preantepenultimates)
- (chiefly phonetics, obsolete, rare) preantepenult
1830, John Walker, A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names, New York, N.Y.: J.F. Dove, page 169:Accent the Preantepenultimate.
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Adjective
preantepenultimate (not comparable)
- (chiefly phonetics and biology) Three before the end; fourth to last.
1874, Andrew Leith Adams, On the Dentition and Osteology of the Maltese Fossil Elephants, Zoological Society of London, page 10:First or Preantepenultimate Milk-molar; Second or Ante- penultimate Milk-molar.
1992, Ulrike Mosel, Even Hovdhaugen, “Phonology and orthography”, in Samoan Reference Grammar, Oslo: The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture; Scandinavian University Press, via National Library of Norway, →ISBN, page 27:In the tautala leaga the shortening of normal vowels in the antepenultimate and preantepenultimate syllables is very common.
2010, Editors Martin Maiden, John Charles Smith, Adam Ledgeway, The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 1, Structures, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 82:…PWs with preantepenultimate and even fifth-but-last stress occur,…
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Translations
three before the end; fourth to last
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