antepenultimate

English

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Cardinal: three     Ordinal: third     Latinate ordinal: tertiary     Reverse order ordinal: third to last, third from last, last but two     Latinate reverse order ordinal: antepenultimate     Adverbial: three times, thrice     Multiplier: threefold     Latinate multiplier: triple     Distributive: triply     Germanic collective: trio, threesome     Collective of n parts: triplet     Greek or Latinate collective: triad     Greek collective prefix: tri-     Latinate collective prefix: tri-     Fractional: third     Elemental: triplet     Greek prefix: trito-     Number of musicians: trio, triplet     Number of years: triennium

Alternative forms

• antepaenultimate (rare)
• antepænultimate (archaic)

Etymology

From ante- +‎ penultimate, modelled on Latin antepaenultima/antepēnultima (syllaba) (“last syllable but two in a word”), from the feminine of antepaenultimus/antepēnultimus (“antepenultimate”).

Adjective

antepenultimate (not comparable)

1. Two before the last, i.e., the one immediately before the penultimate, in a series.

   This book has ten chapters — chapter 8 is the antepenultimate one.

   • 1677, Robert Plot, “Of the Heavens and Air”, in The natural history of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England‎^[2], page 15:

     […] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]

Synonyms

• peripenultimate
• propenultimate
• third last
• third to last
• triultimate

Coordinate terms

• (adjectives denoting syllables): ultimate (last), penultimate (last but one), preantepenultimate (last but three), propreantepenultimate (last but four)

Derived terms

• antepenultimately

 

Translations

two before the last

• Armenian: նախավերջընթերային (naxaverǰəntʻerayin)
• Belarusian: перадперадапошні (pjeradpjeradapóšni)
• Catalan: antepenúltim (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 倒数第三 (dàoshǔ dì sān)

• Danish: antepenultimær, tredjesidst or trediesidst
• Dutch: derdelaatste
• Faroese: triðsíðstur
• Finnish: kolmanneksi viimeinen
• French: antépénultième (fr)
• Galician: antepenúltimo
• German: drittletzter (de), vorvorletzter (de)
• Greek: αντιπροτελευταίος (antiproteleftaíos), προπροτελευταίος (proproteleftaíos)
• Hebrew: מלעיל דמלעיל (he) (mil'él di-mil'él)
• Hungarian: hátulról a harmadik
• Italian: terzultimo m
• Japanese: 次々末 (jijimatsu)
• Latin: antepaenultimus
• Macedonian: претпретпо́следен (pretpretpósleden)
• Portuguese: antepenúltimo (pt)
• Romanian: antepenultim (ro) m
• Russian: предпредпосле́дний (predpredposlédnij)
• Spanish: antepenúltimo (es)
• Swedish: nästnäst sist, näst näst sist, tredje från slutet
• Ukrainian: передпередоста́нній (peredperedostánnij)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Noun

antepenultimate (plural antepenultimates)

1. The third before the last in a series. e.g. (..., antepenultimate, penultimate, ultimate)
2. The syllable that comes two before the last in a word.

   Synonym: antepenult

   The words animal, citizen, comedy, dangerous, obvious, and antepenultimate are stressed on the antepenultimate.

Related terms

• penultimate
• preantepenultimate
• propreantepenultimate
• ultimate

Translations

the syllable 3nd from last

• Greek: αντιπροπαραλήγουσα f (antiproparalígousa)

definition — see target