| 单词 | penultima |
| 释义 | penultima (once / 83235 pages) n WORD FAMILY penultima: antepenultima+/antepenultima: antepenultimate/antepenultimate: antepenultimates USAGE EXAMPLESA fully stressed vowel before a mute and r, or before d or pl, was pronounced long in the penultima. Sargeaunt, John, Society for Pure English Tract 4—Th...(2010) These words, as the reader will observe, are accented either on the first syllable or the penultima. Tench, Watkin, A Complete Account of the Settlemen...(2010) The rule of apex applies also to words of more than two syllables with long penultima, as gravamen, arena, saliva, abdomen, acumen. Sargeaunt, John, Society for Pure English Tract 4—Th...(2010) n the next to last syllable in a word Syn|Hyper penult, penultimate syllable a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme |
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