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  • noun = antepenult, antepenultima
  • noun rare Antepenultimate position.
  • noun rare Any thing occurring as the antepenultimate item in a series.

Etymologies

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First attested in 1860; from the Latin antepaenultima ("antepenult"), a feminine substantive of antepaenultimus ("antepenultimate").

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