Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The next to the last item in a series.
- n. The next to the last syllable in a word.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The next-to-last syllable of a word.
- n. The next to the last in a series.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The last syllable but one of a word; the syllable preceding the final one.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The last syllable of a word but one.
- Next to the last; penultimate.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the next to last syllable in a word
Etymologies
Examples
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If the penult is short, the antepenult is accented provided it be long: Sansthā́naka.
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Noel Coward was partial to this, forever rhyming on the ante-penult.
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The scientists made the measured cautious statement on page 1294 col 2 penult para of their paper “Thus, proxy-derived series suggest that twentieth century warming is unique in the last millennium for both its mean value and probably for its rapidity of change.”
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Of or relating to the penult of a word: penultimate stress.
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When the last syllable has a short vowel, such a penult, if accented, takes the circumflex.
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Third Declension which have a short penult in the Genitive; as, segĕs
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These Genitives accent the penult, even when it is short.
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Words of more than two syllables are accented upon the penult (next to the last) if that is a long syllable, otherwise upon the antepenult (second from the last); as, amā´vī, amántis, míserum.
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In such words the accent stands upon the penult, even though that be short.
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In utră´que, _each_, and plēră´que, _most_, - que is not properly an enclitic; yet these words accent the penult, owing to the influence of their other cases, -- utérque, utrúmque, plērúmque.
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