penultimate, middle name

Demand was Wang’s middle name. He refused to sell one of his paintings to Wang Shimin, the artist-collector who discovered him and took him under his wing, counting on a better price from a richer, full-time collector. He also accepted commissions to make precise copies of the old Chinese masters, some of which passed as originals for centuries, and a few of which are grouped in the show’s penultimate gallery.





Many people's names include one or more middle names, placed between the first given name and the surname. In the West, a middle name is effectively a second given name. In the Anglosphere there is usually only one middle name, often abbreviated by its possessor to the middle initial or omitted entirely in everyday use.

penultimate

(pĭ-nŭl'tə-mĭt)

adj.

1. Next to last.
2. Linguistics. Of or relating to the penult of a word: penultimate stress.

n.

The next to the last.

[From Latin paenultimus. See penult.]

pe・nult

━━ n. 語尾から2番目の音節［もの］ ((cf. antepenult)).
pe・nul・ti・mate
　━━ a., n. 語尾から2番目の（音節）.