proparoxytone

Contents

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek προπαροξύτονος (proparoxútonos).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹəʊpəˈɹɒksɪtəʊn/

Adjective

proparoxytone (not comparable)

1. pertaining to a word in any language, originally in ancient Greek, with the stress (or an acute accent) on the antepenultimate syllable.

Translations

proparoxytone

• Catalan: proparoxíton (ca)
• Galician: proparoxítono (gl) m
• Greek: προπαροξύτονος (el) (proparoxýtonos)

• Italian: proparossitono (it), sdrucciolo (it)
• Portuguese: proparoxítono (pt), esdrúxulo (pt)
• Spanish: proparoxítono (es), esdrújulo (es)

Noun

proparoxytone (plural proparoxytones)

1. a proparoxytone word

Hypernyms

• barytone

Related terms

• barytone
• oxytone
• paroxytone

Translations

proparoxytone

• German: Proparoxytonon (de) n
• Greek: προπαροξύτονος (el) m (proparoxýtonos)

• Portuguese: esdrúxulo (pt) m
• Spanish: esdrújula (es) f