preantepenultimate

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English

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    Cardinal: four
    Ordinal: fourth
    Abbreviated ordinal: 4th
    Latinate ordinal: quartary, quaternary
    Latinate reverse order ordinal: preantepenultimate
    Adverbial: four times
    Multiplier: fourfold
    Latinate multiplier: quadruple
    Distributive: quadruply
    Germanic collective: foursome
    Collective of n parts: quadruplet
    Greek or Latinate collective: tetrad
    Greek collective prefix: tetra-, tessera-
    Latinate collective prefix: quadri-
    Fractional: quarter, fourth
    Elemental: quadruplet
    Greek prefix: tetarto-
    Number of musicians: quartet
    Number of years: quadrennium, olympiad

Etymology

Nominal sense attested since 1746; adjectival sense attested since 1791: pre- +‎ antepenultimate.

Pronunciation

Noun

preantepenultimate (plural preantepenultimates)

  1. (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)

  1. (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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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 preantepenultimate, n. and adj.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary