Paroxytonic Definition

adjective

(prosody) Of or relating to words whose stress falls on the penultimate syllable.

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Origin of Paroxytonic

  • Ultimately from Ancient Greek παροξύτονος (paroxutonos, “with an acute accent on the next to last syllable”)

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