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.”
