paroxytone

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-

Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-

Proto-Hellenic *pərai

Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰ́ (părắ)

Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰ- (pără-)

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.?

Ancient Greek ὀξῠ́ς (oxŭ́s)

Proto-Indo-European *ten-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *tónos

Proto-Hellenic *tónos

Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos)

Ancient Greek ὀξῠ́τονος (oxŭ́tonos)

Ancient Greek πᾰροξῠ́τονος (păroxŭ́tonos)lbor.

English paroxytone

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πᾰροξῠ́τονος (păroxŭ́tonos, “paroxytone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəˈɹɒk.sɪˌtəʊn/

Adjective

paroxytone (not comparable)

1. (linguistics, of a word) Having the stress or accent on the penultimate syllable.

   Coordinate terms: oxytone, proparoxytone, perispomenon, properispomenon, barytone, preproparoxytone

Translations

paroxytone

• Finnish: paroksytoninen
• French: paroxyton (fr)
• Greek: παροξύτονος (el) (paroxýtonos)

  Ancient Greek: παροξύτονος (paroxútonos)

• Hebrew: מִלְּעֵיל (he)
• Hungarian: paroxiton, másodéles
• Italian: parossitono, sdrucciolo (it)
• Polish: paroksytoniczny (pl)
• Portuguese: paroxítono (pt)
• Sicilian: parassìtunu, sdirùzzulu
• Spanish: grave (es), paroxítono (es), llano (es)
• Tibetan: སྒྲ་དྲག་པའི་མཐའ་མའི་གོང་མའི (sgra drag pa'i mtha' ma'i gong ma'i)

Noun

paroxytone (plural paroxytones)

1. (linguistics) A paroxytone word.

   Coordinate terms: oxytone, proparoxytone, perispomenon, properispomenon, barytone, preproparoxytone

Translations

paroxytone

• Catalan: paroxítona (ca) f, paraula plana f
• French: paroxyton (fr) m
• German: Paroxytonon (de) n
• Greek: παροξύτονος (el) (paroxýtonos)
• Hebrew: מִלְּעֵיל (he) (mil’él)
• Italian: parossitono (it)
• Portuguese: paroxítona (pt) f, grave (pt) f
• Sicilian: parussìtunu m
• Spanish: llana (es) f, paroxítona (es) f, grave (es) f