preantepenultimate

English[edit]

**English numbers ^(edit)**
← 3	4	5 →
Cardinal: four Ordinal: fourth Latinate ordinal: quartary, quaternary Reverse order ordinal: fourth to last, fourth from last, last but three Latinate reverse order ordinal: preantepenultimate Adverbial: four times Multiplier: fourfold Latinate multiplier: quadruple Distributive: quadruply Group collective: foursome Multipart collective: quadruplet Greek or Latinate collective: tetrad Greek collective prefix: tetra-, tessera- Latinate collective prefix: quadri- Fractional: quarter, fourth Latinate fractional prefix: quadrant- Elemental: quadruplet Greek prefix: tetarto- Number of musicians: quartet Number of years: quadrennium, olympiad

Nominal sense attested since 1746; adjectival sense attested since 1791: pre- +‎ antepenultimate.^[1]

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: prē'ăn'tĭpĭnŭlʹtĭmət, IPA^(key): /ˌpɹiːˌæntɪpɪˈnʌltɪmət/,^[1]
(General American) enPR: prē'ăn'tipənəlʹtəmət, prē'ăn'təpənəlʹtəmət, IPA^(key): /ˌpɹiˌæntipəˈnʌltɪmət/,^[1] /ˌpɹiˌæntəpəˈnʌltəmət/,^[1]

preantepenultimate (plural preantepenultimates)

(chiefly phonetics, obsolete, rare)^[1] preantepenult^[1]
- 1830, John Walker, A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names, New York, N.Y.: J.F. Dove, page 169:
  Accent the Preantepenultimate.

preantepenultimate (not comparable)

(chiefly phonetics and biology)^[1] Three before the end; fourth to last.^[1]
- 2010, Editors Martin Maiden, John Charles Smith, Adam Ledgeway, The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 1, Structures, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 82:
  …PWs with preantepenultimate and even fifth-but-last stress occur,…
- 1874, Andrew Leith Adams, On the Dentition and Osteology of the Maltese Fossil Elephants, Zoological Society of London, page 10:
  First or Preantepenultimate Milk-molar; Second or Ante- penultimate Milk-molar.

(adjectives denoting syllables): ultimate (last), penultimate (last but one), antepenultimate (last but two), propreantepenultimate (last but four)

three before the end; fourth to last

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 “preantepenultimate, n. and adj.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [Draft revision; Dec. 2007]