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pénultième

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pe.nyl.tjɛm/
  • Audio (France (Lyon)):(file)

Etymology 1

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Learned borrowing from Latin paenultimus (“almost last”), with change of ending by analogy with the ordinal numerals (troisième, quatrième, etc.).

Adjective

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pénultième (plural pénultièmes)

  1. penultimate, next-to-last
    Synonym: avant-dernier
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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    Ellipsis of pénultième syllabe.

    Noun

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    pénultième f (plural pénultièmes)

    1. penult (next-to-last syllable of a word)
      Coordinate term: antépénultième

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