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Word of the Day – Antepenultimate

By September 13, 2023Word of the Day

Antepenultimate (adj)

an-tee-pen-ul-tim-ayt

third from the end.

Antepenultimate was first recorded in 1670-80 and comes from the Latin word antepaenultima, the second (syllable) from the last, or literally “before the penult.” The penult is the next-to-last syllable in a word. It comes from a contraction of paene ultima, “almost the last”, the ultima is the last syllable in a word and comes from the Latin word ultimus, “farthest.”

Example sentences

“It was the antepenultimate game as the season wound down.”

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