English

Noun

preantepenultimate ‎(plural preantepenultimates)

1. (chiefly phonetics, obsolete, rare)^[1]preantepenult^[1]
   • 1830, John Walker, A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names, New York, N.Y., page 169:

     Accent the Preantepenultimate.

Coordinate terms

• (names of syllables): ultima, ult (last); penultima, penultimate, penult (last but one); antepenultima, antepenultime, antepenultimate, antepenult (last but two); preantepenultima (præantepenultima), preantepenultimate, preantepenult (last but three); propreantepenultimate, propreantepenult (last but four)

Adjective

preantepenultimate ‎(not comparable)

1. (chiefly phonetics and biology)^[1] Three before the end; fourth to last.^[1]
   • 2010, Editors Martin Maiden, John Charles Smith, Adam Ledgeway, The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 1, Structures, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781316184295, page 82:

     …PWs with preantepenultimate and even fifth-but-last stress occur,…

   • 1874, Andrew Leith Adams, On the Dentition and Osteology of the Maltese Fossil Elephants, Zoological Society of London, page 10:

     First or Preantepenultimate Milk-molar; Second or Ante- penultimate Milk-molar.

Coordinate terms

• (adjectives denoting syllables): ultimate (last), penultimate (last but one), antepenultimate (last but two), propreantepenultimate (last but four)

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References

1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 “preantepenultimate, n. and adj.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [Draft revision; Dec. 2007]