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preantepenultimates

preantepenultimates is the plural of preantepenultimate.

Meaning of preantepenultimate

Noun

preantepenultimate (plural preantepenultimates)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Synonym of preantepenult (“the last syllable but three of a word or other utterance; the fourth-to-last syllable”).
    • [I]f one vvas to ſay σῶματος, this vvould be all one as σόὸματος, and as if an Acute vvas placed on the Pre-antepenultimate, vvhich is never tolerated.1746, [Claude Lancelot, Antoine Arnauld, Pierre Nicole], “Of the Nature and Division of Accents, of Their General Analogy, and that They are Not to be Confounded with Quantity”, in [Thomas Nugent]...

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Questions about preantepenultimates

What is preantepenultimates the plural of?
Preantepenultimates is the plural of preantepenultimate.

Words near preantepenultimates in the dictionary

  1. preanorexic
  2. preantennal
  3. preantepenult
  4. preantepenultima
  5. preantepenultimate
  6. preantepenultimates
  7. preantepenults
  8. preanthesis
  9. preantibiotic
  10. preantiquity
  11. preantiretroviral

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