antepenultimate / nudiustertian
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prettygoodwordantepenultimate (an-tee-pi-NUHL-tuh-mit) - adj., pertaining to or located the second from the end.
nudiustertian (nyu-dee-uhs-TUHR-shee-an) - adj., pertaining to or occurring on the day before yesterday.
This was supposed to be what I posted Wednesday -- or rather, my nudiustertian post. Note that stress in antepenultimate is on the antepenultimate syllable, and that the pronunciation for nudiustertian is a guess on my part. Both are from Latin -- the former from ante-, before + paenultima, contraction of paene ultima, almost the end, the latter from nudius tertius, a contraction of nunc dies tertius est, now it is the third day (since then). There is, btw, an obsolete English-root synonym for nudiustertian: ereyesterday.
---L.
nudiustertian (nyu-dee-uhs-TUHR-shee-an) - adj., pertaining to or occurring on the day before yesterday.
This was supposed to be what I posted Wednesday -- or rather, my nudiustertian post. Note that stress in antepenultimate is on the antepenultimate syllable, and that the pronunciation for nudiustertian is a guess on my part. Both are from Latin -- the former from ante-, before + paenultima, contraction of paene ultima, almost the end, the latter from nudius tertius, a contraction of nunc dies tertius est, now it is the third day (since then). There is, btw, an obsolete English-root synonym for nudiustertian: ereyesterday.
---L.
