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 acircumflex accent on the lastsyllable .
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Examples
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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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