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 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.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).