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- antepenultimate, adj. and n.
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- /-ˈʌltɪmət/
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- Etymology: < Latin antepænultim-us + -ate suffix1, after ultimate.
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- The last but two. Orig. of syllables; but extended to order in place or time.
- 1730 F. Nicholls Lobster in Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 293 The antepenultimate Leg.
- 1775 J. Walker Rhyming Dict. Pref. 19, I find every vowel in this antepenultimate syllable..pronounced long.
- 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Oct. 11 We have the antepenultimate Duke of Newcastle's authority for the dictum.
- 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 12 Each succeeding vertebra up to the antepenultimate lumbar.
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- [The adj. used absol., sc. syllable, etc.]
- 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word), The Antepenultimate of a Dactyl is long.
- 1871 Athenæum 10 June 725 In words of four syllables it [the accent] may be on the antepenultimate, as in témérité.
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