Paroxytone

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Paroxytone \Par*ox"y*tone\, n. [Gr. ?, a. See {Para-}, and
     {Oxytone}.] (Gr. Gram.)
     A word having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  paroxytone
       n : word having stress or acute accent on the next to last
           syllable