paenultima law

名词 n.
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名词 n.
  1. The rule of Classical Latin pronunciation which states that a word receives antepenultimate stress if its penult is a short or metrically light syllable, but receives penultimate stress if its penult is a long or metrically heavy syllable. singular,singular-only
    — He calls attention to the large number of words found over and over again with a metrical accent which does not follow the ‘paenultima law’, but falls on the last syllable…or even on the fourth syllable from the end.

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词源

First attested in 1892; Latin paenultima (“penult”) + English law.
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