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Having the stress on the last syllable.
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Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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A word with the stress on the last syllable.
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Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: word
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).
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Esperanto:
oksitona
— oxytone
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French:
oxyton
— oxytone
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German:
oxyton
— oxytone
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German:
oxytonisch
— oxytone
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Greek:
οξύτονος
(oxýtonos)
— oxytone
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Ancient Greek:
ὀξύτονος
(oxútonos)
— oxytone
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Hebrew:
מִלְּרַע
— oxytone
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Hungarian:
oxiton
— oxytone
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Hungarian:
végéles
— oxytone
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Italian:
ossitono
— oxytone
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Italian:
tronco
— oxytone
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Latin:
oxytonus
— oxytone
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Portuguese:
oxítono
— oxytone
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Portuguese:
agudo
— oxytone
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Sicilian:
assìtunu
— oxytone
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Sicilian:
mozzu
— oxytone
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Spanish:
oxítono
— oxytone
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Spanish:
agudo
— oxytone
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Tibetan:
སྒྲ་དྲག་པའི་མཐའ་ཅན
(sgra drag pa'i mtha' can)
— oxytone
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French:
oxyton
— word with the stress on the last syllable
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German:
Oxytonum
— word with the stress on the last syllable
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German:
Oxytonon
— word with the stress on the last syllable
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Greek:
οξύτονος
(oxýtonos)
— word with the stress on the last syllable
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Italian:
ossitona
— word with the stress on the last syllable
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Portuguese:
oxítona
— word with the stress on the last syllable
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Spanish:
aguda
— word with the stress on the last syllable
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Spanish:
oxítona
— word with the stress on the last syllable