If the penult is short, the antepenult is accented provided it be long: Sansthā́naka. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika] Reference
If the penult is short, accent the antepenult. From Wordnik.com. [Latin for Beginners] Reference
The penult is the last syllable but one. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
And so was provin in dead; for upoun the penult day of. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
These Genitives accent the penult, even when it is short. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
Of or relating to the penult of a word: penultimate stress. From Wordnik.com. [idiot-milk Diary Entry] Reference
Noel Coward was partial to this, forever rhyming on the ante-penult. From Wordnik.com. [Broadway's Last Good Time] Reference
Third Declension which have a short penult in the Genitive; as, segĕs. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
In such words the accent stands upon the penult, even though that be short. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
When the last syllable has a short vowel, such a penult, if accented, takes the circumflex. From Wordnik.com. [Greek in a Nutshell] Reference
'P. 146.lin. penult L Thiotifa (a Launntio Schmidlir). From Wordnik.com. [Bibliotheca historica] Reference
Ibid.lin. penult Nova fastobii editio pro - diit 1704. g. From Wordnik.com. [Bibliotheca historica] Reference
They drawl the penult or final syllable in every sentence. From Wordnik.com. [Indians of North Carolina: Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting, in Response to a Senate Resolution of June 30, 1914, a Report on the Condition and Tribal Rights of the Indians of Robeson and Adjoining Counties of North Carolina] Reference
Accent all names on the penult, or next to the last syllable. From Wordnik.com. [Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812] Reference
Words of more than two syllables are accented on the penult if the penult is long. From Wordnik.com. [Latin for Beginners] Reference
In penult stanza cuckoo-call has its hyphen deleted in B, leaving the words separate. From Wordnik.com. [Notes] Reference
The accent must fall on the penult, if it was long, otherwise on the antepenult of the word. From Wordnik.com. [The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature] Reference
The accent is usually on the penult vowel, sometimes on the last, but never on the antipenult. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference
Accented on the penult, as here, the word means to enlighten or a light (same in second verse). From Wordnik.com. [Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula] Reference
"Venator," he said, accenting the penult. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
Here accented on the penult. From Wordnik.com. [Palamon and Arcite] Reference
It is here accented on the penult. From Wordnik.com. [Milton's Comus] Reference
What is the ultima? the penult? the antepenult?. From Wordnik.com. [Latin for Beginners] Reference
A long penult is accented: Maitréya, Chārudatta. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika] Reference
S17. note, 1. penult. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;: Comprizing Biographical ...] Reference
Line penult. £or EUSor, readKleftors. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise Concerning Civil Government] Reference
It can fall: on the last syllable. on the penult. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Lex penult. From Wordnik.com. [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference
Stroph. penult. From Wordnik.com. [Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera] Reference
1. penult. From Wordnik.com. [Bibliotheca historica. A.I.G. Meuselio ita digesta ut pæne novum opus videri possit] Reference
1030, penult. From Wordnik.com. [Commentarius in quatuor Evagelia graece et latine : textum graecum nunquam antea editum ad fidem duorum codicum membranaceorum bibliothecarum Ss. Synodi Mosquensis auctoris aetate scriptorum diligenter recensuit et repetita versione latina Ioannis Hentenii suisque adiectis animadversionibus edidit Christianus fider : Matthaei ..] Reference
«penult», 9.3 accent of, 15. From Wordnik.com. [Latin for Beginners] Reference
P. 469, 1. penult, for "were," r. '' was. ". From Wordnik.com. [Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century; comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A.] Reference
13, penult. for only fifty, read an hundred. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789)] Reference
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