Etymology

paroxytonic

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Today it means: Of or relating to words whose stress falls on the penultimate syllable Full definition →

Ancient Greek παροξύτονος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromπαροξύτονος“with an acute accent on the next to last syllable”
  2. English todayparoxytonic

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

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