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Word having stress or acute accent on the next to last syllable
Answer for the clue "Word having stress or acute accent on the next to last syllable ", 10 letters:
paroxytone
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context of a word, especially an Ancient Greek word English) Having the stress or accent on the penultimate syllable. n. A paroxytone word.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. word having stress or acute accent on the next to last syllable
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Paroxytone is a linguistic term for a word with stress on the penultimate syllable, that is, the second last syllable, such as the English word potato . In Italian and Portuguese , most words are like that. In Polish , almost all words have paroxytonic ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paroxytone \Par*ox"y*tone\, n. [Gr. ?, a. See Para- , and Oxytone .] (Gr. Gram.) A word having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable.