Look up oxytone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In linguistics, an oxytone (/ˈɒksɪtoʊn/; from the Ancient Greek: ὀξύτονος, oxýtonos, 'sharp-sounding'[citation...

mora of the word, as in ποταμός potamós 'river' (such words are called oxytone). But in a few words, such as παρθένος parthénos 'maiden', the accent comes...

antepenultimate (third-to-last) syllable) and oxytone (stress on the penultimate/last syllable). Barytone Oxytone Penult Perispomenon Proparoxytone Properispomenon...

such as Welsh and Polish, stress is always on the penult. Acute accent Oxytone Paroxytone Proparoxytone Ultima (linguistics) Stress (linguistics) Welsh...

common Southern Italian familiar term of address, cumpà, the apocoped oxytone form of the word cumpari found in Southern Italian dialects and compare...

Related concepts are paroxytone (stress on the penultimate syllable) and oxytone (stress on the last syllable). In English, most nouns of three or more...

exceptions stated below, Turkish words are oxytone (accented on the last syllable). Place-names are not oxytone: Anádolu (Anatolia), İstánbul. Most place...

Placement of accent Antepenult Penult Ultima Type of accent Circumflex — properispomenon perispomenon Acute proparoxytone paroxytone oxytone Any barytone —...

dependent on the length of the vowel in the ultima. Pitch accent Acute accent Oxytone, paroxytone, proparoxytone Circumflex Perispomenon, properispomenon Grave...

may fall on any of the three final syllables of a word. A word is called oxytone if it is stressed on its last syllable, paroxytone if stress falls on the...