单词 | antepenultima |
释义 | antepenultiman. Grammar and Prosody. The last syllable but two of a word or metrical foot. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > syllabic sound > syllable > last syllable but two antepenultimaa1586 antepenultc1620 antepenultimate1728 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. L2 The French..hath not one word, that hath his accent in the last silable, sauing two, called Antepenultima. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. vi. 65 In..[altitude] and [heauinesse] the sharpe accent falles vpon [al] & [he] which be the antepenultimaes. 1686 F. Spence tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Miscellanea sig. d2v Sdruccioli or slippery verses..lay it [sc. the accent] upon the Ante-penultima, their final Cadence running swift. 1789 R. P. Jodrell Illustr. Euripides (new ed.) 370 In all other instances the antepenultima is short. 1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. i. 19 The general rule [of Æolic dialect] which threw the accent back upon the antepenultima. 1920 H. Bradley in J. Sargeaunt Pronunc. Eng. Words derived from Lat. 21 The stress is on the antepenultima except when heavy consonants bring it on to the penultima, as in ‘sepulcral’, ‘parental’, ‘triumphal’. 2000 C. Wright in M. E. Fassler & R. A. Baltzer Divine Office in Lat. Middle Ages 291 These closing stresses of the half-verses are emphasized by the musical setting: melismas occur both on the penultima of the first half-verse and the antepenultima of the second. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1586 |
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