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Definition of Antepenult

1. Noun. The 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end.

Definition of Antepenult

1. n. The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl- in monosyllable.

Definition of Antepenult

1. Noun. The third-to-last syllable of a word. ¹

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Definition of Antepenult

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antepenult

Literary usage of Antepenult

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with Regard to Sound and ...by Thomas Sheridan by Thomas Sheridan (1790)
"... of the termination pie which have the accent on the antepenult. ; and ... in ure the accent is on the antepenult, or farther back on the fourth ; as, ..."

2. A Grammar of Attic and Ionic Greek by Frank Cole Babbitt (1902)
"If the word preceding an enclitic has the acute accent on the antepenult, or the circumflex on the penult, it adds an acute accent on the last syllable ..."

3. Essays Philological and Critical: Selected from the Papers by James Hadley (1873)
""The accent cannot stand on any syllable before the antepenult. ... It was necessary, therefore, to place the high tone or accent on the antepenult ..."

4. A Greek Grammar, for Schools and Colleges by James Hadley (1871)
"Syllables which precede the antepenult are never accented. b. The antepenult, if accented, takes the acute, as i/Xios sun ; but if the ultima is long, ..."

5. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"... when it is long; when the penult is short, the antepenult [third syllable from the end] is accented." This is correct if rightly understood. ..."

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