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单词 oxytonic
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oxytonicadj.

Brit. /ˌɒksɪˈtɒnɪk/, U.S. /ˌɑksəˈtɑnɪk/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: oxy- comb. form1, tonic adj.
Etymology: < oxy- comb. form1 + tonic adj., after oxytone n. Compare slightly earlier oxytonical adj.
Characterized by an oxytone or oxytones; designating a language in which the majority of words are oxytones.
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oxytonous1796
oxytone1840
oxytonical1875
oxytonic1878
1878 Johnson's New Universal Cycl. 451/2 In the following lines of Collins we may mark the first as oxytonic..and the second as paroxytonic.
1893 Mod. Lang. Notes 8 208/1 French and Provençal words have become oxytonic and paroxytonic, while Spanish and Italian retain the proparoxytones of the Latin.
1954 M. A. Pei & F. Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 156 Oxytonic language, a language in which the majority of the words bear the main accent on the last syllable.
1963 Amer. Speech 38 217 Armenian, like French, is oxytonic; with rare exceptions, the stress in a word falls on the last syllable.
1985 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 30 70 When full or partial prominence is given to non-final syllables, the oxytonic model is contradicted also at the word level.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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