- syllable, and the
antepenult is third-from-last syllable. In a word of
three syllables, the
names of the
syllables are
antepenult-penult-ultima. Ultima...
-
underlying high tone, this high tone
moves to the
antepenult (or to the penult, when the
onset of the
antepenult is a depressor). High spread: all syllables...
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which describes the next-to-last item in a series. The
penult follows the
antepenult and
precedes the ultima. For example, the main
stress falls on the penult...
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called the penult, and the
third syllable from the end is
called the
antepenult.
These terms come from
Latin ultima "last",
paenultima "almost last",...
- the
penultimate syllable is
light in
Latin prose (pă′.trŏ.clŭs), the
antepenult was
stressed in
Latin and
would normally be
stressed in
English as well...
- [ˈmaktabatun] 'library'. Otherwise,
stress the
antepenult (or
leftmost syllable if
there is no
antepenult): كَتَبَ [ˈkataba] 'he wrote'.
Modern Arabic dialects...
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According to the rule
called "default accentuation", the
accent falls on the
antepenult or on the
leftmost syllable of verbs. The
exception to the rule is resultative...
- from the
first syllable to one of the last
three syllables,
called the
antepenult, the penult, and the
ultima (short for
antepaenultima 'before
almost last'...
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still distinguished by stress: the
western "Ionia" is
accented on the
antepenult (IPA: [iˈonia]), and the
eastern on the
penult (IPA: [ioˈnia]). In English...
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syllable from the end (the
antepenult). Most
multisyllabic words are
stressed on the penult. All
words stressed on the
antepenult take an
accent mark. Words...
