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語源

From tri- +‎ ultimate, apparently on account of the fact that it is the third in sequence after ultimate and penultimate.

形容詞

triultimate (not comparable)

1. (rare, possibly nonstandard) Synonym of antepenultimate
   • 1996, Yang Guanxiu, Wang Hongshan, Sheng Axing, “Morphological and microscopical study on Scolecopteris from China”, in Palaeobotanist, volume 45, pages 238–246:

     Penultimate and triultimate rachis 3 x 4 cm wide respectively, with hairs on their surface

   • 2004 August, S. John Caskey, John W. Bell, Alan R. Ramelli, Steven G. Wesnousky, “Historic Surface Faulting and Paleoseismicity in the Area of the 1954 Rainbow Mountain–Stillwater Earthquake Sequence, Central Nevada”, in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, volume 94, number 4, pages 1255–1275:

     However, constraints on the penultimate event for the Rainbow Mountain and triultimate event for the Fourmile Flat fault do overlap slightly, allowing the possibility that they may have ruptured close in time as in 1954.

   • 2020, Ruben Moi, “Moy Sand and Gravel”, in Paul Muldoon and the Language of Poetry, Leiden, Boston: Brill Rodopi, page 272:

     In the final long finish, […] internal stanzaic chimes extend to a sound distribution in which the first and the final, the second and the penultimate, the third and the triultimate octave chime with each other in continuous introversion.