preantepenultimate en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- prē'ăn'təpənəlʹtəmət (General-American)
- prē'ăn'tĭpĭnŭlʹtĭmət (Received-Pronunciation)
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- /ˌpɹiˌæntipəˈnʌltɪmət/ (General-American)
- /ˌpɹiːˌæntɪpɪˈnʌltɪmət/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- prē'ăn'tipənəlʹtəmət (General-American)
- /-tə-/ (General-American)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Proto-Italic *anti Latin ante Classical Latin ante-lbor. English ante- Latin paene Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Italic *-tm̥mos Proto-Italic *oltm̥mos Latin ultimus Latin paenultimus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English penultimate English antepenultimate English preantepenultimate From pre- (prefix meaning ‘physically in front of, before’) + antepenultimate (“(adjective) two before the last in a series; (noun) the second before the last in a series; (phonetics) syllable that comes two before the last in a word”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Three before the end; fourth to last.
Here, [kaŋ] and [gam] are the preantepenultimate and the antepenultimate syllable in the phrase [pitu hitaraaykaanqanpita], respectively.
2024, Timo Buchholz, “Huari Quechua”, in Intonation between Phrasing and Accent: Spanish and Quechua in Huari, Berlin; Boston, Mass.: Walter De Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 320: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.
1873 June 24 (date delivered), A[ndrew] Leith Adams, “I. On the Dentition and Osteology of the Maltese Fossil Elephants, being a Description of Remains Discovered by the Author in Malta between the Years 1860 and 1866.”, in Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, volume IX, part I, London: […] [F]or the [Zoological] Society [of London] […]; and by Messrs. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, […], published November 1874 (1877 printing), →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10: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 […]
2011, Michele Loporcaro, “Syllable, Segment and Prosody”, in Martin Maiden, John Charles Smith, Adam Ledgeway, editors, The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages, volume I (Structures), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 82:In the tautala leaga [colloquial Samoan] the shortening of normal vowels in the antepenultimate and preantepenultimate syllables is very common.
1992, Ulrike Mosel, Even Hovdhaugen, “Phonology and Orthography”, in Samoan Reference Grammar, Oslo, Norway: The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture; Scandinavian University Press, →ISBN, page 27: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.
2015, Ian McMillan, “Up the Hill to Paradise”, in Neither Nowt nor Summat: In Search of the Meaning of Yorkshire, London: Ebury Press, Ebury Publishing, published 2016, →ISBN, page 288: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.
1808, John Walker, “Terminational Vocabulary of Scripture Proper Names”, in A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names; […], 1st American edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Hopkins and Earle, […]; Fry and Kammerer, printers, →OCLC, page 293:
Coordinates
penultimate (adjectives denoting syllables) · propreantepenultimate (adjectives denoting syllables) · ultimate (adjectives denoting syllables) · antepenultimate (adjectives denoting syllables)
Translations (15)
sv fjärde från slutet (three before the end) · bg предпредпредпоследен (three before the end) · fi neljänneksi viimeinen (three before the end) · hu hátulról a negyedik (three before the end) · fr préantépénultième (three before the end) · no fjerd sist (three before the end) · sv nästnästnäst sist (three before the end) · mk претпретпретпоследен (three before the end) · es trasantepenúltimo (three before the end) · it quartultimo (three before the end) · sv näst näst näst sist (three before the end) · ru предпредпредпоследний (three before the end) · fo fjórsíðstur (three before the end) · de vorvorvorletzter (three before the end) · de viertletzter (three before the end)
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