"Penult" is a word in ENGLISH

That which is affixed; an appendage; esp. one or more letters or syllables added at the end of a word; …

To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, …

A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, …

A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. In …

A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in cast/tas.

-an noun forming a? x. {1} forming nouns which refer to a place where s.t. is found, done, held, located. …

A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable.

A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.

bató-bató - Dim. of bató. Also: to do a little at a time, pick up here and there, read and …

To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of …

To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing …

A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones (- / -).

The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; -- the opposite of synaeresis.

A vowel digraph; a union of two vowels in the same syllable, only one of them being sounded; as, ai …

A coalition or union of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable; as, ou in out, oi in noise; -- …

A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in …

To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.

A foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable.

double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two …