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    Penultimate means not the last, but the one immediately before the last. The penultimate chapter is the second-to-last chapter. The penultimate day of the month is the day before the last day. Teachers of poetry and of languages also use it for sound: the penultimate syllable is the one before the last syllable in a word. It is a slightly word. Many people just say second to last, and that is perfectly good English. Though actually, some speakers (including adults) hear ultimate and think penultimate means “almost the greatest” or “the next-best thing.” It does not. It is about place in a line, not about how good something is. You can also meet it as a noun in very careful prose — “the penultimate” meaning that second-to-last item — but the adjective is the use students need.

組成From Latin paenultimus + English -ate, from paene (“almost”) + ultimus (“last”). Equivalent to pene- + ultimate.

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  • ultimatethe “last” half; penultimate is “almost last”
  • penumbraboth start from Latin paene, “almost”

原始詞典資料9 筆記錄

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penultimateadj詞源 1/pɪˈnʌl.tɪ.mɪt/

  • 1

    literaryscholarlysciencesNext to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.

    • […] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]
    • 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.
  • 2

    human-scienceslinguisticssciencesOf or pertaining to a penult.

  • 3

    raremathematicssciencesRelating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily close to a degenerate form.

  • 4

    pre-eminent, ultimate, best; par excellence, top-quality

    • This Book is the Proud Purple Penultimate!!
    • This treatment, where two therapists massage the body using warm oils infused with plant extracts, is truly the penultimate experience.

penultimatenoun詞源 2/pɪˈnʌl.tɪ.mɪt/

  • 1

    A penult, a next to last, particularly

    • 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

    obsoleterareA penult, a next to last

    • At Woodstock, the penultimate of August.
  • 3

    human-scienceslinguisticsliteratureA penult, a next to last

    • Antepenultimate is that before the Penultimate, or the last but two.
  • 4

    obsoleteraremathematicssciencesA penult, a next to last

  • 5

    card-gamesgamesA penult, a next to last

    • Penultimate, the. — Beginning with the lowest card but one of the suit you lead originally, if it contains more than four cards.

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