paroxyton
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek παροξῠ́τονος (paroxŭ́tonos, “paroxytone”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]paroxyton (feminine paroxytone, masculine plural paroxytons, feminine plural paroxytones)
- paroxytone (having the stress or an acute accent on the penultimate syllable)
- Coordinate terms: oxyton, proparoxyton, périspomène, propérispomène
Further reading
[edit]- “paroxyton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eḱ-
- French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *preh₂-
- French terms derived from Ancient Greek
- French terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ten-
- French terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (before)
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