Paroxytone

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Paroxytone

Paroxytone is a linguistic

Linguistics

Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
term for a word with stress on the penultimate syllable, that is, the syllable before the last syllable, e.g, the English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
word canasta. In the Italian language

Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
the majority of the words are like this.

Related terms are proparoxytone

Proparoxytone

Proparoxytone is a linguistics term for a word with stress on the antepenultimate syllable, that is, the last but two, e.g the English language words acromegaly and operational....
(stress on the last one but two) and oxytone

Oxytone

An oxytone is a word whose last syllable is stressed, such as the English language words correct and reward. A paroxytone is stressed on the penultimate syllable. A proparoxytone is stressed on the antepenultimate syllable....
(accented on the last one).

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