How To Use antepenult In A Sentence
- Stress is placed on the penult if it is long and on the antepenult if the penult is short.
- Words of more than two syllables are accented upon the penult (next to the last) if that is a long syllable, otherwise upon the antepenult (second from the last); as, amā´vī, amántis, míserum. New Latin Grammar
- This agglutination is precisely what obscured the original penultimate accent of the bare nominative singular, making it now a word accented on the antepenultimate syllable third-to-last syllable. Sporadic phonetic changes in the Indo-European case system
- So, like I said already, primary stress accent in Mid IE was much like in Polish and fell on the penultimate syllable (second-from-last syllable) by default unless a suffix was derived from an Old IE agglutinated enclitic in which case the antepenultimate (third-from-last syllable) was chosen. Sporadic phonetic changes in the Indo-European case system
- In this example, the two last syllables have the assonance; although this is not invariable, it sometimes falling on the antepenultima and the final syllable. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2
- If _ [Greek: ** anthropos] _ was to be pronounced in common conversation with a perceptible distinction of the length of the penultima as well as of the elevation of the antepenultima, why was not that long quantity also marked? Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The main stress in'photography'falls on the antepenultimate syllable.
- Take a Latin word like attribuitis: the accent falls on the antepenult.
- '' Ayavov, Cum accentu in antepenultima, fignificac liginim fraclum, aut aridum, vcl fragile. Suidae Lexicon, Græce & Latine
- Someone else wrote, asking me to clarify whether I meant 'third from the end' or 'fourth from the end' in the definition of the word preantepenultimate. OUPblog
