antepenultimate
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an·te·pe·nul·ti·mate
(ăn′tē-pĭ-nŭl′tə-mĭt)adj.
Coming before the next to the last in a series.
n.
An antepenult.
[From Late Latin antepaenultimus : Latin ante-, ante- + Latin paenultimus, next to last; see penult.]
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antepenultimate
(ˌæntɪpɪˈnʌltɪmɪt)adj
third from last
n
anything that is third from last
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| Noun | 1. |  antepenultimate - the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the endsyllable - a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; "the word `pocket' has two syllables" |
| Adj. | 1. |  antepenultimate - third from 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" |
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antepenultimate
adj → vorvorletzte(r, s)
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