| 单词 | proparoxytone | 
| 释义 | proparoxytoneadj.n. Linguistics and Phonetics.  A. adj.   Designating or relating to a word in ancient Greek having an acute accent on the antepenultimate syllable. Also in extended use: designating or relating to a word in another language having the stress on that syllable. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > 			[adjective]		 > accent > pitch accent > proparoxytone proparoxytonous1754 proparoxytone1764 proparoxytonic1887 1764    W. Primatt Accentus Redivivi 106  				When they [sc. the Ionians] turned proparoxytone nouns of the..declension in εια into ιη, at the same time they made them paroxytones. 1851    N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 285  				Dr. Robinson deduces..this word from the Hebrew..but the proparoxytone accent makes against this. 1887    ‘Q’ Dead Man's Rock 187  				It is a great thing for struggling youth to have a three-syllabled name with a proparoxyton accent. 1935    L. MacNeice Poems 24  				Thanatos in Greek, the accent proparoxytone. 1957    Archivum Linguisticum 9 52  				‘Esújulo’ (proparoxyton) rhythm is much more marked in whistled than in the spoken language. 1990    Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 35 35  				Some generativists working on Portuguese phonology maintained..that word-final and proparoxytone stress were marked.  B. n.   A proparoxytone word. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > 			[noun]		 > accent > pitch accent > acute > word with acute accent on antepenult proparoxytone1847 1847    Southern Q. Rev. Apr. 280  				Ἴσπλόκον in the fragment of Alcæus would be better as a proparoxytone. 1885    J. Lecky tr.  Paul Pierson in  Academy 24 Jan. 65/2  				We may even predict that at some period..there will be nothing but paroxytones and proparoxytones [in French], since these accentuations are now invading even exclamatory and interrogative phrases. 1901    M. B. Smith tr.  B. ten Brink Lang. & Metre of Chaucer ii. 159  				Proparoxytons, with a secondary accent upon the last syllable may be inflected or remain uninflected: your éxcellènte dǭughter, hire éxcellènt beautée. 1952    Archivum Linguisticum 4 140  				Shortening before three consonants and shortening in a proparoxytone. 1991    Trans. Philol. Soc. 89  i. 13  				Proparoxytones such as mulierem, filiolum..became, in Late Latin.., muliérem, and filiólum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † proparoxytonev. Linguistics and Phonetics. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.   transitive. To accent (a word) on the antepenultimate syllable. ΚΠ 1890    Cent. Dict.  				Proparoxytone, to write or pronounce (a word) with the acute accent on the antepenultimate [syllable]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2021). <  | 
	
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