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Definition of Paenultima law
1. Noun. (context: philology and orthoëpy sometimes “the paenultima law of accentuation”) The (rule) of (Classical Latin) pronunciation which states that a word receives (antepenultimate) stress if its (penult) is a short (syllable), but receives (penultimate) stress if its penult is a long syllable. ¹
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