Home › Words › A › antepenultimeantepenultime/ˌænteɪpɪˈnʌltiːm/antepenultime means synonym of antepenult.antepenultime is pronounced /ˌænteɪpɪˈnʌltiːm/.EtymologyFirst attested in 1860; from the Latin antepaenultima (“antepenult”), a feminine substantive of antepaenultimus (“antepenultimate”).nounSynonym of antepenult.e.g.“In polysyllables the penultime is accented if the syllable be long, but in all other cases the accent is laid upon the antepenultime.” — 1860, I.J.G. Scheller [aut.] and George Walker [tr.], A Copious Latin Grammar (1825), in: Leonhard Tafel and Rudolph L. Tafel, Latin Pronunciation and the Latin Alphabet, page 142Antepenultimate position.e.g.“In antepenultime the non-neutral vowels /a/, /i/, /u/ alternate with the neutral shorter /ə/, and the neutral vowel in antepenultime and penultime alternates with zero.” — 1986, Stephen Adolphe Wurm, editor, Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, II, page 114:Any thing occurring as the antepenultimate item in a series.e.g.“Mandibles with 4 teeth decreasing in size from the apical teeth, the antepenultime (subbasal) smallest.” — 2004, Sociobiology, XLIV:i, page 328:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.peripenultimate 86% match — Synonym of antepenultimate. vs antepenultime →antepenult 85% match — The third-to-last syllable of a word. vs antepenultime →preantepenult 80% match — The last syllable but three (of a word or other utterance); the fourth-to-last syllable. vs antepenultime →preantepenultima 80% match — The last syllable but three (of a word or other utterance); the fourth-to-last syllable. vs antepenultime →antepenultimately 80% match — Second from the last in serial order. vs antepenultime →antepenultimate 79% match — Two before the last, i.e., the one immediately before the penultimate, in a series. vs antepenultime →antepenultima 78% match — The last syllable of a word except two vs antepenultime →propreantepenult 75% match — The last syllable but four; the fifth-to-last syllable (of a word or other utterance); a word’s or other utterance’s propreantepenultimate syllable. vs antepenultime →