Etymology

antepenultime

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Today it means: Synonym of antepenult. Full definition →

Latin antepaenultima
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromantepaenultima“antepenult”
  2. English todayantepenultime

First attested in 1860; from the Latin antepaenultima (“antepenult”), a feminine substantive of antepaenultimus (“antepenultimate”).

Words from the same roots

Latinantepaenultima all →

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