OK, are there words for things coming before the ultimate and penultimate items in a list. Is there such a word as the pen-penultimate or did I just make that up?
The one before the next to the last in a series: antepenultimate.
D’oh! **Peak Banana ** beat me to it!
Anything before that is preantepenultimate.
So is an appetizer eaten before the salad a preantepasto?
This thread reminds me of my father’s predilection for post-prandial repasts.
Perhaps one of our musically gifted members could set “pre-antepenultimate” to a tune, preferably using hemidemisemiquavers?
Tried it. You owe me for a replacement harmonica. 
Just shoehorn it into Flanders and Swann’s “Madeira, M’dear” somehow.
Then there flashed through her mind what her mother had said
With her antepenultimate breath
“Oh my child, should you look on the wine that is red
Be prepared for a fate worse than death”
Or a proantipasto?
Isn’t that just a salad that’s lost its amateur standing?
According to some folks, the night before Christmas Eve is Christmas Adam (because Adam came first.)
In some competitions, the “second runner-up” will be announced before second place.
“Lovely!”, she said, giggling, in the aprespenultitimate aftermath.
Yikes, please send that extry T to Gaudere… am sure she can use it to use for some Time Out or another…