Proparoxytone (προπαροξύτονος, proparoxýtonos) is a linguistic term for a word with stress on the antepenultimate (i.e. third-to-last) syllable, e.g the English words `cinema` and `operational`. Related terms are paroxytone (stress on the last but one) and oxytone (accented on the last one). In English, most nouns of three or mo... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proparoxytone
Pro`par·ox'y·tone noun [ Greek .... See Pro- , and Paroxytone .] (Gr. Gram.) A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/174