Definition of "antepenultima" []

• The last syllable of a word except two; an antepenult. (noun)

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• "The French in his whole language hath not one word that hath his accent in the last syllable saving two, called antepenultima, and little more hath the Spanish; and therefore very gracelessly may they use dactyls."
• "The accent placed on the penultima of [Greek: Theophoros], as the word is written in the saint's acts, denotes it of an active signification, _one that carrieth God_; but of the passive, _carried of God_, if placed on the antepenultima."
• "In this example, the two last syllables have the assonance; although this is not invariable, it sometimes falling on the antepenultima and the final syllable."