Antepenultime

Pronunciation

• RP enPR: ăn'tāpÄ­nûlʹtÄ“m, IPA: en, /ˌænteɪpɪˈnÊŒltiːm/

Origin

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

Noun

noun

1. = antepenult, antepenultima
• 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,

• In polysyllables the penultime is accented if the syllable be long, but in all other cases the accent is laid upon the antepenultime

• 2008, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States, Annals XXI:xlix–l,

• In surnames from words extended with diminutive suffixes…where the stress is always on the antepenultime.
1. (rare) antepenultimate position.
• 1986, Stephen Wurm ed., Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics II,

• In antepenultime the non-neutral vowels /a/, /i/, /u/ alternate with the neutral shorter /É™/, and the neutral vowel in antepenultime and penultime alternates with zero.
1. (rare) Any thing occurring as the antepenultimate item in a series.
• 2004, Sociobiology XLIV:i,

• Mandibles with 4 teeth decreasing in size from the apical teeth, the antepenultime (subbasal) smallest.