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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Relating to or being a Greek word that has an acute accent on its last syllable.
  2. adj. Relating to or being a word that has a heavy stress accent on its last syllable.
  3. n. A word having the stress or the acute accent on the last syllable.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In grammar, especially Greek grammar: Having or characterized by the acute accent on the last syllable.
  2. Causing a word to take the acute accent on the final syllable: as, an oxytone suffix.
  3. n. A word which has the acute accent on the last syllable.
  4. In grammar, to pronounce or write with the acute accent on the final syllable: as, to oxytone a word.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. linguistics Pertaining to a word with the stress or an acute accent on the last syllable.
  2. n. linguistics A word with the stress or an acute accent on the last syllable.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable.
  2. n. An acute sound.
  3. n. (Gr. Gram.) A word having the acute accent on the last syllable.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek ὀξύτονος. (Wiktionary)
  2. 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.”

    Battling the Indo-European axe

  • “[2996] Amphilochius's doubt may have arisen from the fact that phagos, the Doric form of phegos, the esculent oak of Homer, is oxytone.”

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works

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