paroxytone

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

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

1. Word with stress on the penultimate syllableC2formal

   A word that has the primary stress or acute accent on the second-to-last syllable.

   paroxyton

   • In English, 'banana' is a paroxytone because the stress falls on the second syllable.
   • The word 'computer' is a paroxytone, with the stress on the 'pu' syllable.
   • Linguists classify 'tomato' as a paroxytone due to its penultimate stress.

   Antonymesoxytoneproparoxytone