preantepenultimate
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Proto-Italic *anti Classical Latin ante Classical Latin ante-lbor. English ante- Latin paene Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Italic *-tm̥mos Proto-Italic *oltm̥mos Latin ultimus Latin paenultimus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English penultimate English antepenultimate English preantepenultimate From pre- (prefix meaning ‘physically in front of, before’) + antepenultimate (“(adjective) two before the last in a series; (noun) the second before the last in a series; (phonetics) syllable that comes two before the last in a word”).
- derived from antepaenultima
Definitions
Synonym of preantepenult (“the last syllable but three of a word or other utterance
Synonym of preantepenult (“the last syllable but three of a word or other utterance; the fourth-to-last syllable”).
- [I]f one vvas to ſay σῶματος, this vvould be all one as σόὸματος, and as if an Acute vvas placed on the Pre-antepenultimate, vvhich is never tolerated.
- Accent the Preantepenultimate. Näamathite, Jezrëelite, Bethlehemite, Ephräimite, (Canäanite generally pronounced in three syllables, as if written Can-an-ite.)
- Typical review questions for persons preparing for teacher examinations were posed in Stone's Examiner in 1864: […] Reading: What are Cognates? How would you teach them? What is the Antepenultimate? The Preantepenultimates? Define pitch.
Three before the end
Three before the end; fourth to last.
- Words of this termination [-ites] have the accent of the words from which they are formed, which sometimes occasions the accent to be placed even on the preantepenultimate syllable, as Gileadites from Gilead, and so of others.
- With reference to the theoretical first or preantepenultimate milk-molar, rarely developed in either fossil or recent species, there is one very interesting specimen in the British Museum.
- In the tautala leaga [colloquial Samoan] the shortening of normal vowels in the antepenultimate and preantepenultimate syllables is very common.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for preantepenultimate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA