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Antepenultimate
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adjective 1. Last but two in a series; third last.
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Play Button "Lena was the antepenultimate student in line at the book fair."
Play Button "The antepenultimate stanza doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the poem."
Play Button "They cut off the checkout line when the store closed, leaving me as the antepenultimate shopper."
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Latin, late 17th century
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Why This Word?
When it comes to describing the order of things, ordinal words such as "first," "second," "third," and "fourth" describe the beginning of a list, but what about the end? Latin gives us more sophisticated words than "last." "Ultimus" means "last," "paene" means "almost," and "ante-" means "before." ...
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