Meaning of preantepenultimate | Babel Free

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Synonym of preantepenult (“the last syllable but three of a word or other utterance; the fourth-to-last syllable”).

obsolete, rare

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Examples

“[I]f one vvas to ſay σῶματος, this vvould be all one as σόὸματος, and as if an Acute vvas placed on the Pre-antepenultimate, vvhich is never tolerated.”

“Accent the Preantepenultimate. Näamathite, Jezrëelite, Bethlehemite, Ephräimite, (Canäanite generally pronounced in three syllables, as if written Can-an-ite.)”

“Typical review questions for persons preparing for teacher examinations were posed in Stone's Examiner in 1864: […] Reading: What are Cognates? How would you teach them? What is the Antepenultimate? The Preantepenultimates? Define pitch.”

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