peninitial
Syllables: pen·ini·tial/ˌpɛnɪˈnɪʃəl/
peninitial adjective: falling in the position after initial position; second.
Adjective
peninitial (not comparable)
- Falling in the position after initial position; second.
- In examples (81) and (82), the postpositive possessives do not occupy the peninitial position in the clause, nor the peninitial position of the NP.2009, Stéphanie J. Bakker, The Noun Phrase in Ancient Greek: A Functional Analysis of the Order and Articulation of NP Constituents in Herodotus (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology), Brill...
- Because the factors conditioning edge repulsion of the pitch peak are relatively weak at the left edge, it is not surprising that peninitial prominence is rare cross-linguistically.2014, Matthew Gordon, “Disentangling stress and pitch-accent: a typology of prominence at different prosodic levels”, in Harry van der Hulst, editor, Word Stress: Theoretical and Typological Issues...
Origin of peninitial
Blend of penultimate + initial, treating pen- (from Latin paene (“almost”)) as a prefix.
Words that rhyme with peninitial
- official
- superficial
- artificial
- judicial
- unofficial
- beneficial
- initial
- prejudicial
- adventitial
- comitial
- extrajudicial
- interstitial
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Questions about peninitial
- What does peninitial mean?
- Peninitial means falling in the position after initial position; second.
- What part of speech is peninitial?
- Peninitial is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce peninitial?
- Peninitial is pronounced /ˌpɛnɪˈnɪʃəl/.
Words near peninitial in the dictionary
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