Crossword-Solution: ANTEPENULT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Antepenult | n. | Alt. of Antepenultima |
We have 2 clues for the answer “ANTEPENULT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Second syllable from the last. | 1 answer |
| the antepenultimate (third from last) syllable or word | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ANTEPENULT (5)
But if the syllable still remains short after the enclitic has been added, it is not accented unless the word originally took the accent on the antepenult.
Pid., _Cantar de mío Cid_, I, 65 f.] _(b)_ A word stressed on the penult may assonate with one page lx stressed on the antepenult.
Unfortunately the music of the chorus was moulded on the Italian text, and each verse ended with the accent on the antepenult, which occurs frequently in German and Italian, but never in French.
Those who place the accent on the antepenult ([Greek: Theó'phoros]) give it the meaning mentioned in the test; whilst others, placing the accent on the penult ([Greek: Theophó'ros]), understand by it _God-bearing_, the explanation given in the "Acts of the Martyrdom of Ignatius." See Daillé, "De Scriptis quae sub Dionysii Areop.
Cicero, in his buik de Oratore ad Brutum, makes it a natural harmonie that everie word pronunced be the mouth of man have one acute syllab, and that never farther from the end then the third syllab, quhilk the grammareanes cales to the same end the antepenult.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1967).