Usage of "penult" | TermGallery

каталонский

Second to last syllable of a word.

Синонимы

Examples for "penultimate"

For the second successive year Andy Murray fell at the penultimate hurdle. 
 The Guardian 

Smith has lost only five games en route to the penultimate stage. 
 The Irish Times 

The penultimate game of the season was at home to Borussia Dortmund. 
 The Guardian 

And at length her penultimate day in Morningside Park dawned for her. 
 Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story 

It's crunch time in this weekend's penultimate round of Six Nations fixtures. 
 The South African 

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 

Call it "penultima ratio." Other steps toward closer euro zone fiscal integration are also being actively debated. 
 Reuters 

He pronounced her name Schenectady, with a strong accent on the penultimate syllable. 
 An American Politician: A Novel 

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... 

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 

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) 

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 английском

Here accented on the penult. 
 Dryden's Palamon and Arcite 

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

каталонский

penúltima

Penult through the time

Interface language

Meanings of penult in английском