Definitions for proparoxytone
proparox·y·tone

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1. proparoxytonenoun

   word having stress or acute accent on the antepenult

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1. proparoxytonenoun

   a proparoxytone word

2. proparoxytoneadjective

   pertaining to a word in any language, originally in ancient Greek, with the stress (or an acute accent) on the antepenultimate syllable.

3. Etymology: Greek προπαροξύτονος, from προ- + παροξύτονος ‘paroxytone, penultimate’, from παρα- + οξυτονος ‘word with stress on final syllable’, from οξυς ‘sharp, acute’ + τονος ‘pitch, accent’.

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1. Proparoxytone

   In linguistics, a proparoxytone (Greek: προπαροξύτονος, proparoxýtonos) is a word with stress on the antepenultimate (third last) syllable, such as the English words "cinema" and "operational". Related terms are paroxytone (stress on the penultimate syllable) and oxytone (stress on the last syllable). In English, most nouns of three or more syllables are proparoxytones, except in words ending in –tion or –sion, which tend to be paroxytones (operation, equivocation). This tendency is so strong in English that it frequently leads to the stress on derived words being on different part of the root. For example, the root photograph gives rise to the nouns photography and photographer, family → familiar and familial. (In many dialects of English, the i in family is even deleted entirely, and still has the stress in familial and familiar.) In medieval Latin lyric poetry, a proparoxytonic line or half-line is one where the antepenultimate syllable is stressed, as in the first half of the verse "Estuans intrinsecus || ira vehementi."

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1. proparoxytone

   Proparoxytone is a term used in linguistics to describe a word in which the stress or accent falls on the antepenultimate (third from last) syllable. It is commonly used in the context of phonology, particularly in the study of stress patterns in different languages.

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1. Proparoxytonenoun

   a word which has the acute accent on the antepenult

2. Etymology: [Gr. . See Pro-, and Paroxytone.]

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1. Proparoxytone

   Proparoxytone is a linguistic term for a word with stress on the antepenultimate syllable, e.g the English words "cinema" and "operational". Related terms are paroxytone and oxytone. In English, most nouns of three or more syllables are proparoxytones. This tendency is so strong in English that it frequently leads to the stress moving to a different part of the root in order to preserve an antepenultimate stress. For example, the root photograph gives rise to the nouns photography and photographer. In medieval Latin lyric poetry, a proparoxytonic line or half-line is one where the antepenultimate syllable is stressed, as in the first half of the verse "Estuans intrinsecus || ira vehementi."

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1. Proparoxytone

   prō-par-ok′si-tōn, adj. having the acute accent on the antepenultimate or third last syllable.—n. a word having the acute accent on the antepenultimate.

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How to pronounce proparoxytone?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of proparoxytone in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of proparoxytone in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4