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Definition of Proparoxytone
1. Noun. Word having stress or acute accent on the antepenult.
Definition of Proparoxytone
1. n. A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult.
Definition of Proparoxytone
1. Adjective. pertaining to a word in any language, originally in ancient Greek, with the stress (or an acute accent) on the antepenultimate syllable. ¹
2. Noun. a proparoxytone word ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proparoxytone
Literary usage of Proparoxytone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Introduction to Greek Prose Composition by Thomas Kerchever Arnold (1869)
"Verbals in roc become proparoxytone in the compounds, when they are declined with
two endings : not otherwise. 23. >;(,-, G. toc. ..."
2. Elements of Greek Prosody by Franz Ernst Heinrich Spitzner (1831)
"But, when names of towns, they are proparoxytone ... alone is proparoxytone.
Yet it is better even to make this ..."
3. A Practical Introduction to Greek Prose Composition: Part 1 by Thomas Kerchever Arnold (1889)
"Verbals in roc become proparoxytone in the compounds, when they are declined ...
which aie proparoxytone. (2) With any vowel í«< o before the termination, ..."
4. A Grammar of the Greek Language by Georg Curtius, William Smith (1872)
"3. tv о, Nom. tvo-ç, proparoxytone, and 4. to, Nom. eo-ç [Lat. eu-s], ... deceitful.
fio, " fio-ç, proparoxytone, partly active: цах-t-po-ç, warlike; ..."
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