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| Cardinal:two Ordinal:second Abbreviated ordinal:2nd Latinate ordinal:secondary Reverse order ordinal:second last,second to last,second from last,last but one Latinate reverse order ordinal:penultimate Adverbial:twotimes,twice Multiplier:twofold Latinate multiplier:double Distributive:doubly Germanic collective:pair,twosome Collective of n parts:doublet,couple,couplet Greek or Latinate collective:dyad Metric collective prefix:double- Greek collective prefix:di-,duo- Latinate collective prefix:bi- Fractional:half Metric fractional prefix:demi- Latinate fractional prefix:semi- Greek fractional prefix:hemi- Elemental:twin,doublet Greek prefix:deutero- Number of musicians:duo,duet,duplet Number of years:biennium | ||
lastbutone (notcomparable)
In addition to the Latinatepenultimate, the traditional English expressions for this idea werelast but one and (less often)second last. Following the 1920s, American use has favorednext to last to the point thatlast but one now functions as aBritishism. Whilelast but one continues to be somewhat more popular in Britain,next to last,second to last, etc. have been gaining in popularity.