English Explanatory Dictionary

paenultima law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The rule of Classical Latin pronunciation which states that a word receives antepenultimate stress if its penult is a short or metrically light syllable, but receives penultimate stress if its penult is a long or metrically heavy syllable.

Word forms

paenultima law penultima law

Etymology

First attested in 1892; Latin paenultima (“penult”) + English law.

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