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Definition of antepenultimate

Antepenultimate
Antepenultimate An`te*pe*nult"i*mate, a. Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two. -- n. The antepenult.

Meaning of antepenultimate from wikipedia

- In linguistics, the ultima is the last syllable of a word, the penult is the next-to-last syllable, and the antepenult is third-from-last syllable. In...
- particularly from the classical languages, have the stress on the antepenultimate (third-from-last) syllable. For example, fizyka (/ˈfizɨka/) ('physics')...
- February 12, and was one of the few black contestants to reach the antepenultimate "Hometown Dates" round, becomes the first African-American to serve...
- (Gr****: προπαροξύτονος, proparoxýtonos) is a word with stress on the antepenultimate (third last) syllable, such as the English words "cinema" and "operational"...
- Jehoiakim, also sometimes spelled Jehoikim was the eighteenth and antepenultimate King of Judah from 609 to 598 BC. He was the second son of King Josiah...
- Stress in the Western dialects is generally fixed and falls on the antepenultimate syllable while Eastern dialects have non-fixed stress systems that...
- penultimate (second-last) syllable, and a proparoxytone, stressed on the antepenultimate (third-last) syllable. Barytone Paroxytone Penult Perispomenon Proparoxytone...
- Allison Pearson in In Plain Sight. In May 2010, she appeared in the antepenultimate episode of the ABC television series Lost as the adoptive mother of...
- the primary stress to shift from the first syllable ("pho-") to the antepenultimate ("-to-"). The unaccented syllables have their ordinary vowel sound...
- Most interpretations of the twentieth century omit the second and antepenultimate verse, and replace the original chorus by the following: One two three...