oxytone
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ox·y·tone
(ŏk'sĭ-tōn') 
adj.
A word having the stress or the acute accent on the last syllable.
adj.
- Relating to or being a Greek word that has an acute accent on its last syllable.
- Relating to or being a word that has a heavy stress accent on its last syllable.
A word having the stress or the acute accent on the last syllable.
[Greek oxutonos : oxus, sharp + tonos, tone; see tone.]
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An oxytone (
/ˈɒksɨtoʊn/; from the Ancient Greek: ὀξύτονος, oxýtonos) is a word with the stress on the last syllable, such as the English words correct and reward. A paroxytone is stressed on the penultimate syllable. A proparoxytone is stressed on the antepenultimate syllable.
See also
- Barytone
- Paroxytone
- Penult
- Perispomenon
- Preantepenult
- Proparoxytone
- Properispomenon
- Ultima
- Stress (linguistics)
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