oxytone

• Nom désignant un mot dont l'accent tonique ou l'accent aigu porte sur la dernière syllabe.

A noun referring to a word that has stress or an acute accent on the last syllable.

1. Word with final stressC2formal

   A word that has the primary stress or an acute accent on its last syllable.

   Mot oxyton

   • In Greek, 'theós' is an oxytone because the stress falls on the final syllable.
   • The word 'café' is an oxytone in English, with stress on the last syllable.
   • Linguists classify 'oxytone' itself as a word with stress on the final syllable.

   Antonymesparoxytoneproparoxytone