单词 | paroxytone |
释义 | paroxytonen.adj. A. n. A word having an acute accent or a stress on the penultimate syllable, esp. in ancient Greek. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [noun] > accent > pitch accent > acute > word with acute accent on penultimate syllable penacute1703 paroxytone1764 1764 W. Primatt Accentus Redivivi 106 The Ionians..when they turned proparoxytone nouns of the second declension in εια into ιη, at the same time they made them paroxytones. 1840 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 497 It is very easy to show instances where the New York edition copies the errors of its predecessors... Such are..παιδιὰ, correct in the Boston text, incorrectly marked as a paroxytone in the lexicon. 1865 H. B. Stowe in Atlantic Monthly June 737/2 Those hopeless, bewildering Greek quantities and accents..for example, how properispomena becomes paroxytones when the ultimate becomes long,..while paroxytones with a short penult remain paroxytones. 1906 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 27 377 Thus, in the frequent name Tuisamau the normal paroxytone gives us Tuisamáu. 1943 J. T. Shipley Dict. World Lit. 491/1 The typical scheme of Fr. verse is oxytonic, paroxytons existing only through poetic pronunciation of final e muet. 1991 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 121 256 We crossclassify paroxytones and proparoxytones according to the presence or absence of an unaccented syllable before the acute. B. adj. Designating or characteristic of a paroxytone; paroxytonic. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [adjective] > accent > pitch accent > paroxytone penacute1703 penacuted1746 paroxytone1858 paroxytonic1876 1858 A. C. Kendrick Biblical. Comm. on New Test. IV. 571 Accented by Fritzsche as paroxytone, by Griesbach as oxytone. 1881 H. W. Chandler Greek Accent. (ed. 2) 2 A word with the acute on the last syllable is called Oxytone; on the penultimate, Paroxytone. 1895 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 26 13 A considerable variety of oxytone and paroxytone couplets. 1954 W. Weinentraub Poetry A. Mickiewicz xiv. 216 Ends of lines are sometimes irregular, oxytone words rhyming with paroxytone. 1991 Trans. Philol. Soc. 89 i. 15 The overall picture, then, is of a dialect which has provision for oxytone and paroxytone accentuation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † paroxytonev. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. transitive. To make (a word) paroxytonic. Cf. paroxytonize v. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [verb (transitive)] > paroxytone paroxytone1890 paroxytonize1904 1890 Cent. Dict. 4299/2 Paroxytone, to write or pronounce with an acute accent on the penultimate; as, to paroxytone a word. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.adj.1764v.1890 |
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