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propreantepenult

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  • noun rare The last syllable but four / the fifth syllable from last (of a word or other utterance); a word’s or other utterance’s propreantepenultimate syllable.

Etymologies

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First attested in 1893; formed as pro- +‎ preantepenult; compare the earlier propreantepenultimate (1825).

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