penultimate

pe·nul·ti·mate (p

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adj.

1. Next to last.

2. Linguistics Of or relating to the penult of a word: penultimate stress.

The next to the last.

[From Latin paenultimus; see penult.]

pe·nulti·mate·ly adv.

penultimate [pɪˈnʌltɪmɪt]

adj

next to the last

anything that is next to the last, esp a penult

[from Latin paene almost + ultimate, on the model of Latin paenultimus]

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Noun	1.	penultimate - the next to last syllable in a word penult, penultima syllable - a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; "the word `pocket' has two syllables"
Adj.	1.	penultimate - next to the last; "the author inadvertently reveals the murderer in the penultimate chapter"; "the figures in the next-to-last column" next-to-last intermediate - lying between two extremes in time or space or state; "going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands"; "intermediate stages in a process"; "intermediate stops on the route"; "an intermediate range plane"

Translations

penultimate [pɪˈnʌltɪmɪt] ADJ → penúltimo

penultimate [pɪˈnʌltɪmət] adj → pénultième, avant-dernier/ière

penultimate

adj → vorletzte(r, s)

penultimate [pɪˈnʌltɪmɪt] adj → penultimo/a

penultimate → المقطع قبل اللأخير předposlední næstsidst vorletzter προτελευταίος penúltimo toiseksi viimeinen avant-dernier pretposljednji penultimo 終わりから2番目の 어미에서 두 번째(음절)의 voorlaatst nest sist przedostatni penúltimo предпоследний näst sista ที่สองจากที่สุดท้าย sondan bir önceki áp chót 倒数第二的

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barbiturate
barytone
class
junior class
next-to-last
penult
Penultima
Propodite
syllable
transition element
year

In the penultimate verse he makes known his discovery concerning the root of modern Nihilism and indifference,--i.

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context

"If your conscience," says the man with the nose, "is indisposed toward foreign idioms ye might, to please yourself, smuggle the letter into the penultimate syllable.

The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context

But at the penultimate word, Mary cried out with sharp reproof:

The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context

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