Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Relating to or being a Greek word that has an acute accent on its last syllable.
- adj. Relating to or being a word that has a heavy stress accent on its last syllable.
- n. A word having the stress or the acute accent on the last syllable.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In grammar, especially Greek grammar: Having or characterized by the acute accent on the last syllable.
- Causing a word to take the acute accent on the final syllable: as, an oxytone suffix.
- n. A word which has the acute accent on the last syllable.
- In grammar, to pronounce or write with the acute accent on the final syllable: as, to oxytone a word.
Wiktionary
- adj. linguistics Pertaining to a word with the stress or an acute accent on the last syllable.
- n. linguistics A word with the stress or an acute accent on the last syllable.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable.
- n. An acute sound.
- n. (Gr. Gram.) A word having the acute accent on the last syllable.
WordNet 3.0
- n. word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ὀξύτονος. (Wiktionary)
- Greek oxutonos : oxus, sharp; see ak- in Indo-European roots + tonos, tone; see tone. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And now I think about it, the Sanskrit accent actually makes a point in favor of the bisyllabic version of the word parśú- which is, due to the consonant 'grade', expected to be oxytone I think.”
“[2996] Amphilochius's doubt may have arisen from the fact that phagos, the Doric form of phegos, the esculent oak of Homer, is oxytone.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘oxytone’.
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phrontistery - o
from phrontistery.info
oakum, oakus, oast, obambulate, obdormition, obduracy, obedible, obedientiary, obeism, obeliscolychny, obelize, obelus and 504 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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art & linguistics
macron, isochrony, irrealis, isogloss, majuscule, preverb, prevocalic, tonogenesis, volitive, experiencer, enclitic, lithophane and 24 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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moroxys
less or more (dull sharp)
soft gravel, cold chile, keen flat, uphill flow, smooth grating, raw toast, cooked sushi, fitting mess, svelte slob, sootheing sooth, very false, worm cordiform map and 33 more...
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Words of the Day
Words of the day. :)
mucronate, fellah, glottochronology, chanticleer, pabulum, cynosure, purport, risible, privatdozent, catoptric, frazil, rusk and 30 more...
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