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properispome, a. and n. Gr. Gram.|prəʊˈpɛrɪspəʊm|
Also, more fully, properispomenon |prəʊpɛrɪˈspɒmɛnɒn|.
[ad. Gr. προπερισπώµενον, neuter pr. pple. passive of προπερισπᾶν to circumflex on the penultimate, f. πρό, pro-2 + περισπᾶν: see perispome.]
a. adj. Having a circumflex accent on the penultimate syllable.
b. n. A word so accented.
1818Blomfield tr. Matthiæ Gr. Gram. 958 Properispomena, which have the circumflex on the penultima. 1867tr. Curtius' Grk. Gram. (ed. 2) §93 Proparoxytones and properispomes..receive also from the following enclitic another accent as acute on the last syllable. 1881Chandler Grk. Accentuation §11 No word with a final syllable long by nature can be proparoxytone or properispomenon. Ibid. §971 A properispomenon followed by an enclitic receives the acute on its last syllable.., but dissyllabic enclitics after properispomena ending in ξ or ψ are oxytone. 1905Athenæum 19 Aug. 250/3 He knows that an enclitic in ancient Greek throws back the accent upon a properispomenon, and consequently he writes τὸν µαῦρόν του which is not to be pronounced in modern Greek. What he actually heard was τὸ µαῦρο του. |