Ultima (linguistics)
In linguistics, the ultima is the last syllable of a word, the penult is the next-to-last syllable, and the antepenult is third-from-last syllable. In a word of three syllables, the names of the syllables are antepenult-penult-ultima.
Etymology
Ultima comes from Latin ultima (syllaba) "last (syllable)". Penult and antepenult are abbreviations for paenultima and antepaenultima. Penult has the prefix paene "almost", and antepenult has the prefix ante "before".
Classical languages
In Latin and Ancient Greek, only the three last syllables can be accented. In Latin, a word's stress is dependent on the weight or length of the penultimate syllable; in Greek, the place and type of accent is dependent on the length of the vowel in the ultima.
gollark: You can handle resources nicely with function calls by having getThing or setThing or whatever, you can't do it the other way round.
gollark: I like the statelessness thing, but not the resource-oriented thing.
gollark: Also also, people cannot actually agree on what it is and what it means you should do half the time.
gollark: Also, people often want to do things like "restart" in their API, which it can't nicely express, and end up contorting it horribly.
gollark: Also, people often want to do things like "restart" which it can't nicely express and end up contorting it horribly.
See also
- Pitch accent
- Acute accent
- Circumflex
- Perispomenon, properispomenon
- Grave accent
- Rhyme
- Stress (linguistics)
- Syllable
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