preantepenultimate
English
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| Cardinal: four Ordinal: fourth Abbreviated ordinal: 4th Latinate ordinal: quartary, quaternary Latinate reverse order ordinal: preantepenultimate Adverbial: four times Multiplier: fourfold Latinate multiplier: quadruple Distributive: quadruply Germanic collective: foursome Collective of n parts: quadruplet Greek or Latinate collective: tetrad Greek collective prefix: tetra-, tessera- Latinate collective prefix: quadri- Fractional: quarter, fourth Elemental: quadruplet Greek prefix: tetarto- Number of musicians: quartet Number of years: quadrennium, olympiad | ||
Etymology
Nominal sense attested since 1746; adjectival sense attested since 1791: pre- + antepenultimate.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: prē'ăn'tĭpĭnŭlʹtĭmət, IPA(key): /ˌpɹiːˌæntɪpɪˈnʌltɪmət/,[1]
- (General American) enPR: prē'ăn'tipənəlʹtəmət, prē'ăn'təpənəlʹtəmət, IPA(key): /ˌpɹiˌæntipəˈnʌltɪmət/,[1] /ˌpɹiˌæntəpəˈnʌltəmət/,[1]
Audio (General American): (file)
Noun
preantepenultimate (plural preantepenultimates)
- (chiefly phonetics, obsolete, rare)[1] preantepenult[1]
- 1830, John Walker, A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names, New York, N.Y.: J.F. Dove, page 169:
- Accent the Preantepenultimate.
Coordinate terms
- (names of syllables): ultima, ult (last); penultima, penultimate, penult (last but one); antepenultima, antepenultime, antepenultimate, antepenult (last but two); preantepenultima (præantepenultima), preantepenultimate, preantepenult (last but three); propreantepenultimate, propreantepenult (last but four)
Adjective
preantepenultimate (not comparable)
- (chiefly phonetics and biology)[1] Three before the end; fourth to last.[1]
- 1874, Andrew Leith Adams, On the Dentition and Osteology of the Maltese Fossil Elephants, Zoological Society of London, page 10:
- First or Preantepenultimate Milk-molar; Second or Ante- penultimate Milk-molar.
- 1992, Ulrike Mosel, Even Hovdhaugen, “Phonology and orthography”, in Samoan Reference Grammar[1], Oslo: The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture; Scandinavian University Press, via National Library of Norway, →ISBN, page 27:
- In the tautala leaga [colloquial Samoan] the shortening of normal vowels in the antepenultimate and preantepenultimate syllables is very common.
- 2010, Editors Martin Maiden, John Charles Smith, Adam Ledgeway, The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 1, Structures, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 82:
- …PWs with preantepenultimate and even fifth-but-last stress occur,…
Coordinate terms
- (adjectives denoting syllables): ultimate (last), penultimate (last but one), antepenultimate (last but two), propreantepenultimate (last but four)
Translations
three before the end; fourth to last
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