Standard Lemma guide
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adj
Having the stress or accent on the penultimate syllable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
A paroxytone word.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
word having stress or acute accent on the next to last syllable
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: word
History
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πᾰροξῠ́τονος (păroxŭ́tonos, “paroxytone”).
Across languages
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
