Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Greek grammar, having or characterized by the acute accent on the antepenultimate: sometimes applied to words in English and other languages to signify that they have the tonic accent on the antepenultimate.
- In Greek grammar, a word which has the acute accent on the antepenultimate.
- In Greek grammar, to write or pronounce (a word) with the acute accent on the antepenultimate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gr. Gram.) A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective pertaining to a word in any language, originally in ancient Greek, with the stress (or an acute
accent ) on theantepenultimate syllable. - noun a proparoxytone word
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun word having stress or acute accent on the antepenult
Etymologies
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Examples
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And all hearts were touched and turned to her voice, shining like a young star, shining clearer as the voice intoned the proparoxytone and more faintly as the cadence died.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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And all hearts were touched and turned to her voice, shining like a young star, shining clearer as the voice intoned the proparoxytone and more faintly as the cadence died.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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And all hearts were touched and turned to her voice, shining like a young star, shining clearer as the voice intoned the proparoxytone and more faintly as the cadence died.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1911
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As compared with Italian and Spanish, it may be noted that the Provencal has no proparoxytone words, and hence a whole class of words is brought into the two categories possible in Provencal.
Frederic Mistral Downer, Charles A 1901
alguien commented on the word proparoxytone
"Proparoxytone" is a proparoxytone.
March 26, 2007