Word Meanings - ANTEPENULTIMATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two. -- n.

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• SYLLABLE
  1. An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• TRISYLLABLE
  A word consisting of three syllables only; as, a-ven-ger.
• DISSYLLABLE
  A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.
• QUINQUESYLLABLE
  A word of five syllables.
• DODECASYLLABLE
  A word consisting of twelve syllables.
• OCTOSYLLABLE
  Octosyllabic.
• QUADRISYLLABLE
  A word consisting of four syllables. De Quincey.
• HENDECASYLLABLE
  A metrical line of eleven syllables. J. Warton.
• MONOSYLLABLE
  A word of one syllable.
• SEXISYLLABLE
  A word of six syllables.
• MULTISYLLABLE
  A word of many syllables; a polysyllable. -- Mul`ti*syl*lab"ic, a.
• SEPTISYLLABLE
  A word of seven syllables.
• POLYSYLLABLE
  A word of many syllables, or consisting of more syllables than three; -- words of less than four syllables being called monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables.
• TETRASYLLABLE
  A word consisting of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.
• MONOSYLLABLED
  Formed into, or consisting of, monosyllables. Cleveland.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach