Propenultimate vs X - What's the difference?
propenultimate | x |
(rare) Two before the last, an alternative to antepenultimate.
* 1929 , , The Sleeping Fury'', book 1 ''Charlotte At Fifty , chapter 1:
* 1997 , Georg Capellanus and Rod McLeod, Latin Can be Fun (Facetiae Latinae): A Modern Conversational Guide (Sermo Hodiernus Antique Redditus) :
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As an adjective propenultimate
is (rare) two before the last, an alternative to antepenultimate.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.propenultimate
English
Adjective
(-)- “Halnaker is the family name?”
“Yes. Spelt H-a-l-n-a-k-e-r and pronounced Hannaker, with the accent on the Hann—the pro-penultimate', as we were taught to call it at school. The ' propenultimate , if you please. What unmitigated nonsense! Why not the last-but-two?”
- In Latin polysyllabic words are stressed on the penultimate syllable if this is long; otherwise on the propenultimate syllable, provided that there is one.