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English
Etymology
From pro- + penultimate.
Adjective
propenultimate (not comparable)
- (rare) Synonym of antepenultimate: two places before last.
- 1929, Martin Armstrong, The Sleeping Fury, book 1 Charlotte At Fifty, chapter 1:
- “Halnaker is the family name?”
“Yes. Spelt H-a-l-n-a-k-e-r and pronounced Hannaker, with the accent on the Hann—the pro-penultimate, as we were taught to call it at school. The propenultimate, if you please. What unmitigated nonsense! Why not the last-but-two?”
1997, Georg Capellanus, Rod McLeod, Latin Can be Fun (Facetiae Latinae): A Modern Conversational Guide (Sermo Hodiernus Antique Redditus):In Latin polysyllabic words are stressed on the penultimate syllable if this is long; otherwise on the propenultimate syllable, provided that there is one.