noun
- plural of penult; the second-to-last syllables in words
Usage: linguistics
Examples
- The penults in these words carry the primary stress.
- Students struggled to identify the penults in multisyllabic words.
- The teacher marked the penults with accent marks.
- In Latin poetry, the length of penults affects meter.
- The penults of these verbs follow a regular pattern.
- Linguists analyzed the vowel sounds in the penults.