Etymology

paenultima law

Today it means: The rule of Classical Latin pronunciation which states that a word receives antepenultimate stress if its penult is a short or metrically light syllable, but receives penultimate stress if its penult is a long or metrically heavy syllable. Full definition →

Latin paenultima
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  1. Latin · derived frompaenultima“penult”
  2. English todaypaenultima law

First attested in 1892; Latin paenultima (“penult”) + English law.

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