pénultième

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pe.nyl.tjɛm/
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Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin paenultimus (“almost last”), with change of ending by analogy with the ordinal numerals (troisième, quatrième, etc.).

Adjective

pénultième (plural pénultièmes)

  1. penultimate, next-to-last
    Synonym: avant-dernier
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of pénultième syllabe.

Noun

pénultième f (plural pénultièmes)

  1. penult (next-to-last syllable of a word)
    Coordinate term: antépénultième

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