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First attested in 1893; formed as pro- + preantepenult; compare the earlier propreantepenultimate (1825).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
propreantepenult
Today it means: The last syllable but four; the fifth-to-last syllable (of a word or other utterance); a word’s or other utterance’s propreantepenultimate syllable. Full definition →