Definizione monolingua

penultimate

penultimate (plural penultimates)

1. A next-to-last thing.

penultimate (not comparable)

1. Coming next-to-last in a sequence.
   • 1878, Samuel Butler, Life and Habit, ch. 10:

     But it should frequently happen that offspring should resemble its penultimate rather than its latest phase, and should thus be more like a grand-parent than a parent.

   • 1913, Jack London, The Valley of the Moon, ch. 3:

     “Your clothes dont weigh moren seven pounds. And seven from—hum—say one hundred an twenty-three—one hundred an sixteen is your stripped weight.”

     But at the penultimate word, Mary cried out with sharp reproof:

     “Why, Billy Roberts, people dont talk about such things.”

2. (linguistics) Of or pertaining to a penult.

Definizione dizionario penultimate

	penultimo
	the next-to-last in a sequence
	Next to the last in a sequence.

Altri significati:

Coming next-to-last in a sequence.

(linguistics) Of or pertaining to a penult.

A next-to-last thing.