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paroxytone

/pəˈɹɒk.sɪˌtəʊn/

paroxytone adjective: having the stress or accent on the penultimate syllable.

Adjective

paroxytone (not comparable)

  1. Having the stress or accent on the penultimate syllable.

Noun

paroxytone (plural paroxytones)

  1. A paroxytone word.

Forms of paroxytone

pluralparoxytones

Origin of paroxytone

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πᾰροξῠ́τονος (păroxŭ́tonos, “paroxytone”).

Questions about paroxytone

What does paroxytone mean?
Paroxytone means having the stress or accent on the penultimate syllable.
What part of speech is paroxytone?
Paroxytone can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce paroxytone?
Paroxytone is pronounced /pəˈɹɒk.sɪˌtəʊn/.

Words near paroxytone in the dictionary

  1. paroxysmal trepidant abasia
  2. paroxysmally
  3. paroxysmic
  4. paroxysms
  5. paroxysome
  6. paroxytone
  7. paroxytoned
  8. paroxytones
  9. paroxytonesis
  10. paroxytonic
  11. parp

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