单词 | orthotonic |
释义 | orthotonicadj.1 Veterinary Medicine and Medicine. rare. Affected with generalized muscle rigidity; spec. affected with orthotonos. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [adjective] > tetanus tetanic1727 opisthotonic1734 orthotonic1748 tetanoid1856 tetanizing1874 tetaniform1887 tetanigenous1891 pleurotonic1899 tetanal1942 1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 315 An Horse is said to be Orthotonic [L. orthotonicus] who is stiff all over his Body. 1945 C. C. Thomas Trichinosis xii. 276 An unchanged position on the back, a complete lack of motion of the straddled painful legs, a sensation of numbness in the limbs, a board-like hardness and an orthotonic stiffness of the trunk are forerunners of certain death. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). orthotonicadj.2 Ancient Greek Grammar. = orthotone adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [adjective] > accent > stressed > orthotone orthotone1846 orthotonic1885 1885 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 6 218 In all other positions the verb is orthotonic, i.e. the accent falls on the verb if there is only one prefix. 1972 Classical Q. New Ser. 22 113 The accent of Greek (Ionic-Attic) orthotonic words was mobile with limited freedom of movement, i.e. it could not stand outside a definite zone at the end of the word. 1989 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 34 386 My evidence suggests rather an indiscriminate usage of the orthotonic Instr. form and the ambiguous clitic Gen./Instr. form. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.11748adj.21885 |
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