"Proparoxytone" Natural Recordings by Native Speakers
In Greek grammar, a proparoxytone is a type of word or phrase that is stressed on the third to last syllable. This is in contrast to an oxytone, which is stressed on the final syllable, and a paroxytone, which is stressed on the second to last syllable.
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In linguistics, an oxytone (from Greek ὀξύς (oxys) meaning "sharp" and τόνος (tonos) meaning "pitch" or "tone") refers to a word whose stress is on its penultimate syllable (i.e., the syllable before the last one).<br><br>A proparoxytone is a type of oxytone word that ends in a secondary stress accent, with its main stress falling on the antepenultimate syllable (i.e., the syllable before the penultimate one).<br><br>In other words, a proparoxytone is a word that has a weak stress on the last syllable, and a stronger stress on the third-to-last syllable.
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