antepenultime
English edit
Etymology edit
First attested in 1860; from the Latin antepaenultima (“antepenult”), a feminine substantive of antepaenultimus (“antepenultimate”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ăn'tāpĭnûlʹtēm, IPA(key): /ˌænteɪpɪˈnʌltiːm/
Noun edit
antepenultime sg
- = antepenult, antepenultima
- 1860, I.J.G. Scheller [aut.] and George Walker [tr.], A Copious Latin Grammar (1825), in: Leonhard Tafel and Rudolph L. Tafel, Latin Pronunciation and the Latin Alphabet, page 142
- In polysyllables the penultime is accented if the syllable be long, but in all other cases the accent is laid upon the antepenultime.
- 2008, Annals, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States, XXI:xlix-l, page 104:
- In surnames from words extended with diminutive suffixes…where the stress is always on the antepenultime.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:antepenultime.
- 1860, I.J.G. Scheller [aut.] and George Walker [tr.], A Copious Latin Grammar (1825), in: Leonhard Tafel and Rudolph L. Tafel, Latin Pronunciation and the Latin Alphabet, page 142
- (rare) Antepenultimate position.
- 1986, Stephen Adolphe Wurm, editor, Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, II, page 114:
- In antepenultime the non-neutral vowels /a/, /i/, /u/ alternate with the neutral shorter /ə/, and the neutral vowel in antepenultime and penultime alternates with zero.
- (rare) Any thing occurring as the antepenultimate item in a series.
- 2004, Sociobiology, XLIV:i, page 328:
- Mandibles with 4 teeth decreasing in size from the apical teeth, the antepenultime (subbasal) smallest.
Latin edit
Adjective edit
antepēnultime