| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| oxytone |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ox·y·tone |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   k s -t n |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Relating to or being a Greek word that has an acute accent on its last syllable. 2. Relating to or being a word that has a heavy stress accent on its last syllable. | | NOUN: | A word having the stress or the acute accent on the last syllable. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Greek oxutonos : oxus, sharp; see ak- in Appendix I + tonos, tone; see tone.
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