Paroxytone
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Paroxytone
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In linguistics, a paroxytone is a word with stress on the penultimate syllable, that is, the second-to-last syllable, such as the English word potáto. In English, most words ending in -ic are paroxytones: músic, frántic, and phonétic but not rhétoric, aríthmetic (noun), and Árabic. In Italian and Portuguese, most words are paroxytones. In Polish, almost all multisyllabic words are paroxytones except for certain verb conjugations and a few words of foreign origin. In medieval Latin lyric poetry,
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In linguistics, stress on the second-to-last syllable
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2024-02-06T23:04:24Z
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