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Penultima

Definition: Penultima

Penultima

Noun

1. The next to last syllable in a word.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Penultima \Pe*nul"ti*ma\, noun. [Latin expression (sc. syllaba), from penultimus, paenultimus, the last but one; paene almost ultimus the last.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Penultima

Synonyms: penult (n), penultimate (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Penultima

Etymologies containing "penultima": Penult. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Penultima" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (penultimate), Swedish (penult, penultimate).

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Commercial Usage: Penultima

DomainTitle

Books

  • LA Penultima Version De LA Colorada Villanueva (reference)

  • Penultima Geografia de Valdes (reference)

  • Penultima Intemperie: Antologia Personal (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Penultima

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  penultima

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: Penultima

Derivations

Words beginning with "penultima": penultimas, penultimate, penultimately. (additional references)

Words ending with "penultima": antepenultima. (additional references)

Words containing "penultima": antepenultimas, antepenultimate, antepenultimates. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Penultima"

Words rhyming with "penultima" (pronounced 'Pe*nul"ti*ma'): Aboma, Aceldama, Adenoma, Adipoma, Agama, Amalgama, Amma, Amphiuma, Analemma, Anathema, Angienchyma, Anhima, Arapaima, Aroma, Asthma, Atheroma, Bema, Blastema, Bothrenchyma, BRAHMA, Brama, Branchiostoma, Bregma, Broma, Cauma, Ceroma, Chacma, Chiloma, Chloasma, Chondroma, Cima, Collenchyma, Coloboma, Comma, Cosmorama, Croma, Cyclorama, Cytoblastema, Diastema, Diatryma, Digamma, Dilemma, Diorama, Diploma, Distoma, Dogma, Drachma, Drama, Ecphonema, Ecthyma. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Penultima

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-m-n-p-t-u"

-1 letter: platinum, tumpline.

-2 letters: ailment, aliment, alumine, alunite, impanel, implant, maniple, nuptial, pantile, petunia, pinetum, plumate, putamen, ulpanim, unplait.

-3 letters: alpine, alumin, alumni, ampule, amulet, aplite, auntie, eluant, entail, etamin, impale, impute, inmate, lament, limpet, lineup, lumina, lumpen, lunate, lupine, lutein, maline, manitu, mantel, mantle, menial, mental, minuet, minute, muleta, mutine, pantie, patine, paulin.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-m-n-p-t-u"
 

+1 letter: manipulate, multipaned, penultimas.

 

+2 letters: manipulated, manipulates, penultimate, planetarium.

 

+3 letters: incomputable, manipulative, planetariums.

 

+4 letters: antepenultima, conceptualism, importunately, manipulatable, outmanipulate, penultimately, perambulating, perambulation, permutational, pneumatically, pneumatolytic, supermilitant, uncomplicated, unmanipulated, unproblematic.

 

+5 letters: antepenultimas, conceptualisms, manipulatively, multipotential, municipalities, outmanipulated, outmanipulates, perambulations, pneumatologies, preformulating, supernormality, unemphatically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Penultima


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 65 6E 75 6C 74 69 6D 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    .    -.    ..-    .-..    -    ..    --    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100101 01101110 01110101 01101100 01110100 01101001 01101101 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#101 &#110 &#117 &#108 &#116 &#105 &#109 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0065 006E 0075 006C 0074 0069 006D 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

507180877886757967

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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