preantepenultima

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ ante- +‎ penultima

Noun

preantepenultima

  1. (poetry) The last syllable but three (of a word or other utterance); the fourth-to-last syllable.
    • 1825, Samuel Oliver, A General Critical Grammar of the Inglish Language, page 337:
      […] receiving the principal accent on the penultima, the word necessarily takes the secondary accent on the preantepenultima.
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