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Antepenult

//ˌantiˈpiˌnʌlt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The third-to-last syllable of a word.

    "This elementary instruction is language at its most advanced to minds trained on the accentuation of the antepenult (multiplicity) and on Sievers-type C2 half-line metrical patterns[.]"

  2. 2
    the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end wordnet

Etymology

Either formed from ante- + penult and modelled on Latin or a shortening of Latin antepaenultima/antepēnultima (syllaba).

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