antepenultime

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nounantepenultime sg

singularSynonym of antepenult.
In surnames from words extended with diminutive suffixes…where the stress is always on the antepenultime.
2008, Annals, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States, XXI:xlix-l, page 104
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In polysyllables the penultime is accented if the syllable be long, but in all other cases the accent is laid upon the 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
Synonyms: antepenult
raresingularAntepenultimate position.
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.
1986, Stephen Adolphe Wurm, editor, Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, II, page 114
raresingularAny thing occurring as the antepenultimate item in a series.
Mandibles with 4 teeth decreasing in size from the apical teeth, the antepenultime (subbasal) smallest.
2004, Sociobiology, XLIV:i, page 328

nounSynonym of antepenult.

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

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