pænultimate

== English == === Adjective === pænultimate (not comparable) Archaic spelling of penultimate. 1942, Tromsø Museums Skrifter (Universitetsførlaget), volume 3, page 454 […] pereiopods 5 — 7 slender, with slender, drepaniform fingers, and with the pænultimate joints each provided with a spine on the hind margin […] 1966, Victor Henry Mattfeld, Georg Rhaw’s Publications for Vespers (Institute of Mediaeval Music), page 296 A second type of colouration which occurs much more frequently and is much more significant is that which consists of a melismatic insertion prior to the ultimate or pænultimate note of a cadence or after an accent in either the Mediatio or Finalis. 1968, Vernon Perdue Davis, A Primer of Ancient Hymnody (E. C. Schirmer Music Co.), page 55 Whole phrases (like the pænultimate one in Sanctorum meritis (Sarum 51)) are sometimes completely scalar.