Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Greek grammar, same as perispome.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Gr. Gram.) A word which has the circumflex accent on the last syllable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun grammar A word with a circumflex accent on the last syllable.

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Examples

  • A word so common as os! and after all these years you make it perispomenon! "

    Brother Copas Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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