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Webster 1913 Edition

Antepenultima

{

Anˊte-pe′nult

, ‖

Anˊte-pe-nult′i-ma

, }

Noun.

[L.

antepaenultima

(sc.

syllaba

) antepenultimate;

ante

before +

paenultimus

the last but one;

paene

almost +

ultimus

last.]

(Pros.)

The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl- in monosyllable.