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paenultimus

paenultimus · adj

the last but one

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Where it lives

Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 1 · 1.71/10k

What it meant

paenultĭmus — Lewis & Short

paenultĭmus (pēn-), a, um, adj.paene-ultimus,

I the last but one (post-class. for proximus a postremo, Cic. Or. 64, 217): paenultima meta November, Aus. Ecl. Quotae Cal. Sint Mens. 12.—

II Subst.: pae-nultĭma, ae, f. (sc. syllaba), the penultimate syllable, the penult: paenultimam circumflectere, Gell. 4, 7, 2.

In the wild

paenultima Ausonius, Eclogarum Liber 14.13
paenultima Boethius, Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 3

Where it came from

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