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penultime (1298)

penultime (1298)

penultiesme,  penultisme;  penultim  
  FEW:  paenultimus 7,464b Gdf: GdfC:  penultieme 10,314c TL: penultieme 7,686 DEAF:  penultieme  DMF:  pénultième  TLF:  pénultième  OED:  penultim a. and n.  MED:  penultim a.  DMLBS:  paenultimus 2079c

The extended lexeme penultimate, constructed in analogy with ultimate, appears (in English) only from the sixteenth century.

a.

penultimate, last but one
( 1298 )  mes la seureté qui fu apportee ne peut, ne ne doibt souffire, ne valloir de droict, et ne autres par encores deslivrer li Roys d'Ecosse ne les autres pris au penultiesme article response  Foedera1 i 899
( 1372 )  Donnee etc. a nostre manoir de la Sauvoye le penultisme jour d'Avril l'an etc. d'Engleterre quarante sisme et de France trente et tierce  GAUNT1 ii 39
( 1400-01; MS: s.xv1 )  Escript a Londres le penultim jour de januer  Lett & Pet 412.11
( 1433-34; MS: c.1449 )  le sixieme volume [...] finist en penultime feueillet ou text '[...] Deo Gracias'  Bedford Inventories B202

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