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n. - The next to last syllable in a word.

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Usage examples (7)
  • These words, as the reader will observe, are accented either on the first syllable or the penultima.
  • Scena ve - ro penultima oflendet, patrem ob hoc peccatum iratum eiFe; immo Clitiphoiiem flagitii hu« ius poenitebit.
  • That lake of Conterano -- the accent is on the ante-penultima -- it looked appetising on the map, all alone out there.
  • I prefer Anther to Anthera, in Englifh, be - caufe we thus avoid any diffenfion between the learned and unlearned refpecting the pronun - ciation of the penultima, and...
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