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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

paroxytonic en · ADJ

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek παροξύτονος (paroxútonos, “with an acute accent on the next to last syllable”)

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to words whose stress falls on the penultimate syllable

Deriveds

proparoxytonic

Relateds

oxytonic · paroxytone