penultimate

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /pəˈnəltəmət/|/pɪˈnʌltəmət/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A penult, a next to last, particularly uncommon
    — Our Lutheran concern for the ultimates (the Gospel) has allowed us to neglect some of the penultimates (bodily healing), failing to stress the total implications of that ultimate Gospel.
  2. A penult, a next to last; The penultimate day of a month. obsolete,rare,uncommon
    — At Woodstock, the penultimate of August.
  3. A penult, a next to last; The penultimate syllable of a word or metrical line. uncommon
    — Antepenultimate is that before the Penultimate, or the last but two.
  4. A penult, a next to last; The penultimate element of a collection of curves. obsolete,rare,uncommon
  5. A penult, a next to last; The penultimate (next to lowest) card in a suit. uncommon
    — Penultimate, the. — Beginning with the lowest card but one of the suit you lead originally, if it contains more than four cards.
形容词 adj.
  1. Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc. UK,literary,not-comparable
    — […] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]
  2. Of or pertaining to a penult. not-comparable
  3. Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily close to a degenerate form. not-comparable,rare
  4. pre-eminent, ultimate, best; par excellence, top-quality not-comparable,proscribed
    — This Book is the Proud Purple Penultimate!!

词形变化

pænultimate alternative,archaic penultimates plural pænultimate alternative,archaic

词汇关系

反义词
second
衍生词
antepenultimate penultimately penultimatum preantepenultimate prepenultimate propenultimate propreantepenultimate
相关词
penult ultimate peninitial

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Latin paene
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Italic *-tm̥mos
Proto-Italic *oltm̥mos
Latin ultimus
Latin paenultimus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
English penultimate
From Latin paenultimus (“penultimate”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix), from paene (“almost”) + ultimus (“last”). Equivalent to pene- + ultimate. Compare French pénultième.
词源 2
From a substantivation of the above adjective. Equivalent to Latin paenultimus + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
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