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n. - Word having stress or acute accent on the next to last syllable.

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Usage examples (6)
  • I suspect that ειθε is paroxytone and γενοιμην is properispomenon but those are total guesses.
  • And all hearts were touched and turned to her voice, shining like a young star, shining clearer as the voice intoned the pro-paroxytone and more faintly as the cadence died.
  • In both these sequences the end of all the strophes is paroxytone.
  • If anybody giggles when you say it as a paroxytone, that's their problem, not yours.
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