Definition of Paroxytones. Meaning of Paroxytones. Synonyms of Paroxytones

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Definition of Paroxytones

Paroxytone
Paroxytone Par*ox"y*tone, n. [Gr. ?, a. See Para-, and Oxytone.] (Gr. Gram.) A word having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable.

Meaning of Paroxytones from wikipedia

- are paroxytones: músic, frántic, and phonétic but not rhétoric, aríthmetic (noun), and Árabic. In Italian and Portuguese, most words are paroxytones. In...
- proparoxytones, except in words ending in –tion or –sion, which tend to be paroxytones (operation, equivocation). This tendency is so strong in English that...
- : 118  such as the English words correct and reward. It contrasts with a paroxytone, stressed on the penultimate (second-last) syllable, and a proparoxytone...
- Welsh and Polish, stress is always on the penult. Acute accent Oxytone Paroxytone Proparoxytone Ultima (linguistics) Stress (linguistics) Welsh Archived...
- Placement of accent Antepenult Penult Ultima Type of accent Cir****flex — properispomenon perispomenon Acute proparoxytone paroxytone oxytone Any barytone —...
- devoicing in the article on Polish phonology. Most Polish words are paroxytones (that is, the stress falls on the second-to-last syllable of a polysyllabic...
- equilibrium. Syllables are enumerated with respect to a verse which ends with a paroxytone, so that a Septenary (having seven syllables) is defined as a verse whose...
- although it was not used in paroxytones with two or more consonants after the stressed vowel, in most two-syllable paroxytones, and in some other words....
- monotone, monotonic, monotonous, monotony, neoteny, octatonic, oxytone, paroxytone, pentatonic, peritoneum, polytonic, proparoxytone, protasis, pyelectasis...
-  58. "Stress in Italian occurs most often on the penultimate syllable (paroxytones); it also occurs on the antepenultimate syllable (proparoxytones) .....