How To Use antepenultima In A Sentence
- Moreover, in the antepenultimate chapter of the novel, when the narrator reflects on his project, he intimates that he has been writing a novel all along.
- Afficionados and adepts will recognize the last item as the words of Joel Beinin, the antepenultimate item as the words of Mahatma Gandhi, and the penultimate item as the motto of Faber College in Animal House.
- This, as the copy editor Steve Pickering liked to say, is the antepenultimate paragraph.
- The accent placed on the penultima of [Greek: Theophoros], as the word is written in the saint's acts, denotes it of an active signification, _one that carrieth God_; but of the passive, _carried of God_, if placed on the antepenultima. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
- Antepenultimate accentuation only ever surfaces in words with enclitic extensions like *-sa and *-ta. Update of my "Diachrony of Pre-IE" document
- West African speakers tend to have antepenultimate word stress.
- Your feete of three times by prescription of the Latine Grammariens are of eight sundry proportions, for some notable difference appearing in euery sillable of three falling in a word of that size: but because aboue the antepenultima there was (among the Latines) none accent audible in any long word, therefore to deuise any foote of longer measure then of three times was to them but superfluous: because all aboue the number of three are but compounded of their inferiours. The Arte of English Poesie
- The word for "fourth to last" is preantepenultimate. Alien Loves Predator
- _antepenultima_ there was (among the Latines) none accent audible in any long word, therfore to deuise any foote of longer measure then of three times was to them but superfluous: because all aboue the number of three are but compounded of their inferiours. The Arte of English Poesie
- So, like I said already, primary stress accent in Mid IE was much like in Polish and fell on the penultimate syllable (second-from-last syllable) by default unless a suffix was derived from an Old IE agglutinated enclitic in which case the antepenultimate (third-from-last syllable) was chosen. Sporadic phonetic changes in the Indo-European case system
