proparoxytone

• Substantivo que designa uma palavra cuja sílaba tônica é a antepenúltima, isto é, a terceira contando do fim para o começo (antepenúltima). Em português, todas as palavras proparoxítonas são acentuadas graficamente.

A noun referring to a word that has the primary stress or acute accent on the antepenultimate (third from last) syllable.

1. Word with stress on the antepenultimate syllableC2formal

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

   Proparoxítona

   • The word 'cinema' is a proparoxytone because the stress falls on the first syllable.
   • In English, 'telephone' is a proparoxytone with stress on the first syllable.
   • Linguists study proparoxytones to understand stress patterns in languages.

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