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PENULTIMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does penultima mean? 

PENULTIMA (noun)
  The noun PENULTIMA has 1 sense:

1. the next to last syllable in a wordplay

  Familiarity information: PENULTIMA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PENULTIMA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The next to last syllable in a word

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

penult; penultima; penultimate

Hypernyms ("penultima" is a kind of...):

syllable (a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme)


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