Post date: May 30, 2014 8:25:28 PM
penultimate
pi-NUHL-tuh-mit \ , adjective;
1.
2.
next to the last: the penultimate scene of the play .
of or pertaining to a penult.
Origin:
Penultimate combines a variation on the Latin paene meaning "almost" with ultimus meaning "final." Itentered English in the mid-1500s.