"paenultima law" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Etymology: First attested in 1892; Latin paenultima (“penult”) + English law. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|paenultima||penult}} Latin paenultima (“penult”), {{cog|en|law}} English law Head templates: {{head|en|noun|singulare tantum}} paenultima law (singulare tantum)
  1. (linguistics and orthoëpy, sometimes “the paenultima law of accentuation”) 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. Tags: singular, singular-only Categories (topical): Linguistics Synonyms: Paenultima law, Paenultima Law, penultima law (alt: forms reducing the ae digraph of paene to e), Penultima law, Penultima Law

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