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Definition of Antepenult

Antepenult
Antepenult An`te*pe"nult, Antepenultima An`te*pe*nult"i*ma, n. [L. antepaenultima (sc. syllaba) antepenultimate; ante before + paenultimus the last but one; paene almost + ultimus last.] (Pros.) The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl- in monosyllable.

Meaning of Antepenult from wikipedia

- syllable, and the antepenult is third-from-last syllable. In a word of three syllables, the names of the syllables are antepenult-penult-ultima. Ultima...
- underlying high tone, this high tone moves to the antepenult (or to the penult, when the onset of the antepenult is a depressor). High spread: all syllables...
- called the penult, and the third syllable from the end is called the antepenult. These terms come from Latin ultima "last", paenultima "almost last",...
- which describes the next-to-last item in a series. The penult follows the antepenult and precedes the ultima. For example, the main stress falls on the penult...
- the penultimate syllable is light in Latin prose (pă′.trŏ.clŭs), the antepenult was stressed in Latin and would normally be stressed in English as well...
- [ˈmaktabatun] 'library'. Otherwise, stress the antepenult (or leftmost syllable if there is no antepenult): كَتَبَ [ˈkataba] 'he wrote'. Modern Arabic dialects...
- pre-antepenult syllables before a semivowel in the next syllable are those that are derive from a word with a regularly lengthened vowel in an antepenult...
- definite articles, and with the accent shifted from the penult to the antepenult. This becomes Latin Hesperia or Hesperius, the latter not a distinct nominal...
- still distinguished by stress: the western "Ionia" is accented on the antepenult (IPA: [iˈonia]), and the eastern on the penult (IPA: [ioˈnia]). In English...
- extensively reconstructed by Jürgen M. Burkhardt in 2014. Severe limitations on antepenult syllables All preantepenult syllables were lost in Proto-Berawan: *kalapani...