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Meanings of penult in English

Catalan
penúltima

Second to last syllable of a word.

penúltima
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Examples for "penultimate"
Examples for "penultimate"
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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
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Call it "penultima ratio." Other steps toward closer euro zone fiscal integration are also being actively debated.
Reuters
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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...
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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)
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In contrast, utterance-final position affected only vowel duration, lengthening both final-syllable unstressed vowels and stressed vowels in penultimate syllables.
Pubmed
Usage of penult in English
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Here accented on the penult.
Dryden's Palamon and Arcite
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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
Catalan
penúltima
Penult through the time