These words, as the reader will observe, are accented either on the first syllable or the penultima.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Settlement at Port Jackson] Reference

Scena ve - ro penultima oflendet, patrem ob hoc peccatum iratum eiFe; immo Clitiphoiiem flagitii hu« ius poenitebit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae sex novissime recognitae cum selecta varietate lectionum et ...] Reference

That lake of Conterano -- the accent is on the ante-penultima -- it looked appetising on the map, all alone out there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alone] Reference

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 the formation of the plural.    From Wordnik.com.  [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference

N. describir, sed in prions pagina penultima iegitur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catalogus bibliothecæ historico-naturalis Josephi Banks ... Auctore Jona Dryander, ...] Reference

The penultima of the verb short.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ovid's Metamorphoses, tr. by dr. Garth, and others] Reference

Bueno la penultima y lo hago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular in the last 8 hours] Reference