paroxytonic

Questions

What does paroxytonic mean?

Of or relating to words whose stress falls on the penultimate syllable

Where does paroxytonic come from?

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

How to pronounce paroxytonic

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