proparoxytonicadj.
/ˌprəʊpərɒksᵻˈtɒnɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌproʊpəˌrɑksəˈtɑnɪk/ Linguistics and Phonetics.
Having or characterized by proparoxytone accent or stress.
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proparoxytonous1754
proparoxytone1764
proparoxytonic1887
1887 A. Morel-Fatio in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 349/2 Castilian may be said to be essentially a paroxytonic language, though it does not altogether refuse proparoxytonic accentuation.
1893 Mod. Lang. Notes 8 211/1 A proparoxytonic ending is..frequent only in Spanish and Portuguese; in Italian it is rare.
1934 Speculum 9 8 Paroxytonic and proparoxytonic verses could rhyme together indiscriminately.
1977 A. L. Lepschy & G. Lepschy Ital. Lang. Today (1979) 91 In Italian a word is said to be, according to stress position:..sdrucciola (proparoxytonic: stressed on the antepenultimate syllable).
1999 Jrnl. Royal Musical Assoc. 124 24 Only ModB adjusts texting to allow final melismas to fall on accented syllables in proparoxytonic verse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1887