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- noun rare The last
syllable but four / the fifth syllable from last (of aword or otherutterance ); a word’s or other utterance’spropreantepenultimate syllable.
Etymologies
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First attested in 1893; formed as pro- + preantepenult; compare the earlier propreantepenultimate (1825).
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