antepenultimate

English

From ante- +‎ penultimate.

antepenultimate (not comparable)

Two before the last, i.e., the one immediately before the penultimate, in a series.
This book has ten chapters — chapter 8 is the antepenultimate one.
- 1677, Robert Plot, “Of the Heavens and Air”, in The natural history of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England‎, page 15:
  […] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]

(adjectives denoting syllables): ultimate (last), penultimate (last but one), preantepenultimate (last but three), propreantepenultimate (last but four)

two before the last

Armenian: նախավերջընթերային (naxaverǰəntʿerayin)
Belarusian: перадперадапошні (pjeradpjeradapóšni)
Catalan: antepenúltim (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 倒数第三 (dàoshǔ dì sān)
Danish: antepenultimær, tredjesidst or trediesidst
Dutch: derdelaatste
Faroese: triðsíðstur
Finnish: kolmanneksi viimeinen
French: antépénultième (fr)
Galician: antepenúltimo
German: drittletzter (de), vorvorletzter (de)
Greek: αντιπροτελευταίος (antiproteleftaíos), προπροτελευταίος (proproteleftaíos)
Hebrew: מלעיל דמלעיל‎ (mil'él di-mil'él)
Hungarian: hátulról a harmadik
Italian: terzultimo m
Japanese: 次々末 (jijimatsu)
Latin: antepaenultimus
Macedonian: претпретпо́следен (pretpretpósleden)
Portuguese: antepenúltimo (pt)
Romanian: antepenultim (ro) m
Russian: предпредпосле́дний (predpredposlédnij)
Spanish: antepenúltimo (es)
Swedish: nästnäst sist, näst näst sist, tredje från slutet
Ukrainian: передпередоста́нній (peredperedostánnij)

antepenultimate (plural antepenultimates)

Two before the last in a series. e.g. (..., antepenultimate, penultimate, ultimate)
The syllable that comes two before the last in a word.
The words animal, citizen, comedy, dangerous, obvious, and antepenultimate are stressed on the antepenultimate.