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单词 paroxytonic
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paroxytonicadj.

Brit. /pəˌrɒksᵻˈtɒnɪk/, U.S. /pəˌrɑksəˈtɑnɪk/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; perhaps modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: paroxytone n., -ic suffix.
Etymology: < paroxytone n. + -ic suffix, perhaps after French paroxytonique (1847).
Characterized by a paroxytone or paroxytones; designating a language in which the majority of words are paroxytones.
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1876 S. Haldeman in Johnson's New Universal Cycl. III. 452/1 The next form is a paroxytonic (′ °) holometric tetrapody, in binary rhythm.
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 349/2 As regards the tonic accent and the treatment of the vowels which come after it, Castilian may be said to be essentially a paroxytonic language, though it does not altogether refuse proparoxytonic accentuation.
1934 Speculum 9 8 Paroxytonic and proparoxytonic verses could rhyme together indiscriminately.
1989 S. Kay in W. Paden Voice of Trobairitz viii. 163 Occitan treatises on versification describe rhyme in terms of the position of tonic stress (accen), what we call ‘masculine’ rhymes being specified as oxytonic..and ‘feminine’ ones as paroxytonic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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