Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or being a Greek word that has an acute accent on its last syllable.
- adjective Relating to or being a word that has a heavy stress accent on its last syllable.
- noun A word having the stress or the acute accent on the last syllable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In grammar, especially Greek grammar: Having or characterized by the acute accent on the last syllable.
- Causing a word to take the acute accent on the final syllable: as, an oxytone suffix.
- noun A word which has the acute accent on the last syllable.
- In grammar, to pronounce or write with the acute accent on the final syllable: as, to
oxytone a word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable.
- noun An acute sound.
- noun (Gr. Gram.) A word having the acute accent on the last syllable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective linguistics Pertaining to a
word with thestress or anacute accent on the lastsyllable . - noun linguistics A
word with thestress or anacute accent on the lastsyllable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek oxutonos : oxus, sharp; see ak- in Indo-European roots + tonos, tone; see tone.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Ancient Greek ὀξύτονος.
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Examples
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And now I think about it, the Sanskrit accent actually makes a point in favor of the bisyllabic version of the word parśú- which is, due to the consonant 'grade', expected to be oxytone I think.
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[2996] Amphilochius's doubt may have arisen from the fact that phagos, the Doric form of phegos, the esculent oak of Homer, is oxytone.
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