• paenultima law

paenultima law (suomeksi)

Määritelmät:

• (lb, en, philology, and, orthoëpy, sometimes “the paenultima law of accentuation”) The rule of Classical Latin pronunciation which states that a word receives antepenultimate stress if its penult is a short or metrically light syllable, but receives penultimate stress if its penult is a long or metrically heavy syllable.