immediately before the last one synonym next/second to last倒数第二的 the penultimate chapter/day/stage 倒数第二章/天/阶段
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPenultimate is used with these nouns:- paragraph
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from Latin paenultimus, from paene ‘almost’ + ultimus ‘last’, on the pattern of ultimate.