oxytone

English

Alternative forms

• oxyt. (abbreviation)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.?

Ancient Greek ὀξῠ́ς (oxŭ́s)

Proto-Indo-European *ten-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *tónos

Proto-Hellenic *tónos

Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos)

Ancient Greek ὀξῠ́τονος (oxŭ́tonos)lbor.

English oxytone

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀξῠ́τονος (oxŭ́tonos).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒksɪˌtəʊn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) enPR: ŏk'sĭtōn", IPA^(key): /ˈɑksɪˌtoʊn/

Adjective

oxytone (not comparable)

1. (linguistics, of a word) Having the stress on the last syllable.

   Coordinate terms: paroxytone, proparoxytone, perispomenon, properispomenon, barytone, preproparoxytone

Translations

oxytone

• Esperanto: oksitona
• French: oxyton (fr)
• German: oxyton, oxytonisch
• Greek: οξύτονος (el) (oxýtonos)

  Ancient Greek: ὀξύτονος (oxútonos)

• Hebrew: מִלְּרַע (he)
• Hungarian: oxiton (hu), végéles
• Italian: ossitono (it) m, tronco (it) m
• Latin: oxytonus
• Portuguese: oxítono (pt), agudo (pt)
• Sicilian: assìtunu m, mozzu m
• Spanish: oxítono (es), agudo (es)
• Tibetan: སྒྲ་དྲག་པའི་མཐའ་ཅན (sgra drag pa'i mtha' can)

Noun

oxytone (plural oxytones or oxytona)

1. (linguistics) A word with the stress on the last syllable.

   Coordinate terms: paroxytone, proparoxytone, perispomenon, properispomenon, barytone, prototonic, preproparoxytone

Derived terms

• oxytonical
• oxytonize

Translations

word with the stress on the last syllable

• French: oxyton (fr) m
• German: Oxytonum n, Oxytonon (de) n
• Greek: οξύτονος (el) (oxýtonos)
• Italian: ossitona f
• Portuguese: oxítona (pt) f, ^{(please verify)} aguda (pt) f
• Spanish: aguda (es) f, oxítona (es) f

Further reading

• oxytone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔkˈsy.tɔ.nɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [okˈsiː.to.ne]

Adjective

oxytone

1. vocative masculine singular of oxytonus and oxytonos