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/ˌpɹiːˌæntɪpɪˈnʌltɪmət/ · noun
(phonetics, obsolete, rare) 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.
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.
As in Italian, stress position is generally unaffected by clitics, so that (postlexical) PWs with preantepenultimate and even fifth-but-last stress occur, typically with the definite article: t'impurile 'times-the.NPL', v'everiţele 'squirrels-the.FPL'. As apparent from the last example, however, Romanian is unique among Romance languages in possessing lexical words (about twenty) with preantepenultimate stress […]
These sudden shifts in Yorkshire weather could be metaphors, as The Dog knew, for Good and Evil; and they could also tell you it's time to nip in for a plate of chips or an hour on the slots watching your last 2p piece just fail to knock your penultimate, your antepenultimate and your preantepenultimate 2p's back down the chute and clinking in your purse.
Use preantepenultimate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Preantepenultimate means (phonetics, obsolete, rare) Synonym of preantepenult (“the last syllable but three of a word or other utterance; the fourth-to-last syllable”)..
Common synonyms include preantepenultima, preantepenult.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[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.
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