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Sad is the lot of the interjection, for of all the parts of speech it has the lowest place. There is none to praise it." On the way from Latin to French, the penultimate syllable of the proparoxytone succumbed. Mallarmé was so touched by this that he wrote a
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line or half-line is one where the antepenultimate syllable is stressed, as in the first half of the verse "Estuans intrinsecus || ira vehementi."
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Je m'enfuis, bizarre, personne condamnée à porter probablement le deuil de l'explicable Penultième.
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In English, most nouns of three or more syllables are proparoxytones, except in words ending in
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offers an interesting use of the term in a footnote (Ch. 8, n. 33) of his
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Antepenultimate stress, stress on the third-to-last syllable
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words "cinema" and "operational". Related concepts are
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Greek
antepenultimate
English
paroxytone
oxytone
deleted
Ernst Robert Curtius
Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel
prose poem
Barytone
Oxytone
Paroxytone
Penult
Perispomenon
Properispomenon
Stress (linguistics)
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phonology
stub
expanding it
v
t
e
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Ancient Greek
stub
expanding it
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e

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