paenultima law

Alternative forms

 * paenultima law, Paenultima law, Paenultima Law
 * penultima law, Penultima law, Penultima Law

Etymology
First attested in 1892; + 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  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.