paroxytone
Sign in to saveIn linguistics, a paroxytone (, ) is a word with either stress (in stress-based languages) or a high accent (in languages with a pitch accent) on the penultimate syllable (that is, the second-to-last syllable). An example of this in English is the word potato. It contrasts with proparoxytone (on the antepenultimate third-to-last syllable), and oxytone (on the ultimate last syllable).
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- stress
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- proparoxytone
- Follows
- oxytone
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In linguistics, a paroxytone (, ) is a word with either stress (in stress-based languages) or a high accent (in languages with a pitch accent) on the penultimate syllable (that is, the second-to-last syllable). An example of this in English is the word potato. It contrasts with proparoxytone (on the antepenultimate third-to-last syllable), and oxytone (on the ultimate last syllable).
In English, most words ending in -ic are paroxytones: músic, frántic, and phonétic but not rhétoric, aríthmetic (noun), and Árabic.
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