preantepenultima

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ ante- +‎ penultima.

Noun

preantepenultima

1. (poetry) The last syllable but three (of a word or other utterance); the fourth-to-last syllable.
   • 1825, Samuel Oliver, A General Critical Grammar of the Inglish Language, page 337:

     […] receiving the principal accent on the penultima, the word necessarily takes the secondary accent on the preantepenultima.