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Definition of Oxytones
1. oxytone [n] - See also: oxytone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxytones
Literary usage of Oxytones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Vulgar Latin by Charles Hall Grandgent (1907)
"Sometimes the Greek stress was preserved, sometimes the word was made to conform
to the Latin principle. (i) GREEK oxytones. 144. ..."
2. A First Book in Greek by Frank Pierrepont Graves, Edward Southworth Hawes (1895)
"oxytones in a liquid have the vocative like the nominative ... The converse of
242 с is also true; ie nouns in a liquid, not oxytones, have a vocative like ..."
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