Meanings
adjectiveproparoxytone (not comparable)
- not comparablehuman sciencesHaving the stress or accent on the antepenultimate syllable.
Origin
- Ancient Greekπροπᾰροξῠ́τονος
- Ancient Greekπροπᾰροξῠ́τονος
- Englishproparoxytone
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek προπᾰροξῠ́τονος (propăroxŭ́tonos).
More words from Ancient Greek
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan proparoxíton
- proparoxítonproparoxytone
Finnish proparoksytoninen
- proparoksytoninenproparoxytone
French proparoxyton
- proparoxytonproparoxytone
German Proparoxytonon
- Proparoxytonona proparoxytone word
Greek προπαροξύτονος, προπαροξύτονος
- προπαροξύτονος (proparoxýtonos)proparoxytone
- προπαροξύτονος (proparoxýtonos)a proparoxytone word
Hungarian proparoxiton, harmadéles
- proparoxitonproparoxytone
- harmadélesproparoxytone
Italian proparossitono, sdrucciolo
- proparossitonoproparoxytone
- sdruccioloproparoxytone
Portuguese proparoxítono, esdrúxulo
- proparoxítonoproparoxytone
- esdrúxuloproparoxytone
- proparoxítonaa proparoxytone word
- esdrúxulaa proparoxytone word
Romanian proparoxiton
- proparoxitona proparoxytone word
Spanish proparoxítono, esdrújulo
- proparoxítonoproparoxytone
- esdrújuloproparoxytone
- esdrújulaa proparoxytone word
- proparoxítonaa proparoxytone word
Cite this entry
APA
proparoxytone. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/proparoxytone
MLA
“proparoxytone.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/proparoxytone. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “proparoxytone,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/proparoxytone.
Source: proparoxytone on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.