proparoxytone

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek προπᾰροξῠ́τονος (proparoxútonos).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹəʊpəˈɹɒksɪtəʊn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹoʊpəˈɹɑksɪtoʊn/
• Hyphenation: pro‧pa‧rox‧y‧tone

Adjective

proparoxytone (not comparable)

1. (linguistics, of a word) Having the stress or accent on the antepenultimate syllable.

   Coordinate terms: oxytone, paroxytone, perispomenon, properispomenon, barytone

Translations

proparoxytone

• Catalan: proparoxíton (ca)
• Finnish: proparoksytoninen
• French: proparoxyton (fr)
• Galician: proparoxítono (gl)
• Greek: προπαροξύτονος (el) (proparoxýtonos)
• Hungarian: proparoxiton, harmadéles
• Italian: proparossitono (it), sdrucciolo (it)
• Portuguese: proparoxítono (pt), esdrúxulo (pt)
• Spanish: proparoxítono (es), esdrújulo (es)

Noun

proparoxytone (plural proparoxytones)

1. (linguistics) A proparoxytone word.

   Coordinate terms: oxytone, paroxytone, perispomenon, properispomenon, barytone

Translations

a proparoxytone word

• German: Proparoxytonon (de) n
• Greek: προπαροξύτονος (el) m (proparoxýtonos)
• Portuguese: esdrúxulo (pt) m
• Spanish: esdrújula (es) f