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antepenultime
antepenultime
English
Noun
antepenultime sg
- = 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, page 142
- 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, page 104
- In surnames from words extended with diminutive suffixes…where the stress is always on the antepenultime.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations: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
- (rare) Antepenultimate position.
- 1986, Stephen Adolphe Wurm [ed.], Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics II, page 114
- 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 [ed.], Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics II, page 114
- (rare) Any thing occurring as the antepenultimate item in a series.
- 2004, Sociobiology XLIV:i, page 328
- Mandibles with 4 teeth decreasing in size from the apical teeth, the antepenultime (subbasal) smallest.
- 2004, Sociobiology XLIV:i, page 328