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paroxytone, a. and n. Gram., chiefly Gr. Gram.|pəˈrɒksɪtəʊn|
[ad. mod.L. paroxyton-us, a. Gr. παροξύτον-ος, f. παρ(α- beside, past + ὀξύτονος oxytone. In F. paroxyton (1570 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
a. adj. Having an acute accent on the last syllable but one.
b. n. A word so accented.
1764W. Primatt Accentus redivivi 106 The Ionians..when they turned proparoxytone nouns of the second declension in εια into ιη, at the same time they made them paroxytones. 1881Chandler Greek Accent. (ed. 2) 2 A word with the acute on the last syllable is called Oxytone; on the penultimate, Paroxytone.
Hence paroxytonic |-ˈtɒnɪk| a., characterized by paroxytone accent or stress; paˈroxytone, paˈroxytonize vbs., to accent on the penultimate syllable.
1887A. Morel-Fatio in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 349/2 As regards the tonic accent and the treatment of the vowels which come after it, Castilian may be said to be essentially a paroxytonic language, though it does not altogether refuse proparoxytonic accentuation. 1890Cent. Dict., Paroxytone vb. |