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Proparoxitone - Definition

Proparoxytone is a linguistic term for a word with stress on the antepenultimate syllable, that is, the last but two, e.g the English words acromegaly and operational. Related terms are paroxytone (stress on the last but one) and oxytone (accented on the last one).

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