paroxytone
- noun
- /ˌpɛrəˈzɪtoʊn/
- Specialized
- The word 'banana' is a paroxytone because the stress is on the 'na'.
Examples
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In Spanish, most nouns are paroxytone, with the stress falling on the second-to-last syllable.
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Linguists often categorize words as paroxytones, oxytones, or proparoxytones based on their stress patterns.
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The word paroxytone is often used in linguistics.
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Many languages have paroxytones as common word types.
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In Spanish, most nouns are paroxytone, with the stress falling on the second-to-last syllable.
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The word 'banana' is a paroxytone because the stress is on the 'na'.
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Linguists often categorize words as paroxytone, oxytones, or proparoxytones based on their stress patterns.
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Etymology
Paroxytone comes from Greek parts: para- meaning 'next to' and oxytone (from oxys 'sharp' and tonos 'tone'). So a paroxytone has the main stress on the syllable next to the last one, that is, the second-to-last syllable.
