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Proparoxytone

Proparoxytone logo #10101) Word
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Proparoxytone

Proparoxytone logo #21000 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...
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Proparoxytone

Proparoxytone logo #21002• (n.) A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult.
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Proparoxytone

Proparoxytone logo #20972Pro`par·ox'y·tone noun [ Greek .... See Pro- , and Paroxytone .] (Gr. Gram.) A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult.
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proparoxytone

proparoxytone logo #20400[n] - word having stress or acute accent on the antepenult
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proparoxytone

proparoxytone logo #20974 noun word having stress or acute accent on the antepenult
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