penultima law

A form of paenultima law — 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.

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Meanings

nounpenultima law (singulare tantum)
  1. alternativesingularsingular onlyAlternative spelling of paenultima law.
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