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Significats de penult en anglès

català
penúltima

Second to last syllable of a word.

        penúltima
        Sinònims
        Examples for "penultimate"
        Examples for "penultimate"
        1
        For the second successive year Andy Murray fell at the penultimate hurdle.
        The Guardian
        2
        Smith has lost only five games en route to the penultimate stage.
        The Irish Times
        3
        The penultimate game of the season was at home to Borussia Dortmund.
        The Guardian
        4
        And at length her penultimate day in Morningside Park dawned for her.
        Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story
        5
        It's crunch time in this weekend's penultimate round of Six Nations fixtures.
        The South African
        1
        These words, as the reader will observe, are accented either on the first syllable or the penultima.
        A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
        2
        Call it "penultima ratio." Other steps toward closer euro zone fiscal integration are also being actively debated.
        Reuters
        1
        He pronounced her name Schenectady, with a strong accent on the penultimate syllable.
        An American Politician: A Novel
        2
        We observe here the rare rhythm, analogous to the iambic scazon, of a trochaic tetrameter with a long penultimate syllable.
        The History of Roman Literature / From the Earliest Period to th...
        3
        As usual, Dean talked a mile a minute, in rapid, rippling, pyrrhic lines whose only stress fell on the last or penultimate syllable.
        The Guardian
        4
        In the narrow sense, it is understood as that concordance which in the last and in the penultimate syllable it is usual to make.
        The Banquet (Il Convito)
        5
        In contrast, utterance-final position affected only vowel duration, lengthening both final-syllable unstressed vowels and stressed vowels in penultimate syllables.
        Pubmed
        Ús de penult en anglès
        1
        Here accented on the penult.
        Dryden's Palamon and Arcite
        2
        The penults of proper names have been marked when long, both in the text and Index.
        Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D.
        Translations for penult
        català
        penúltima
        Penult a través del temps