Associations to the word «Proparoxytone»

Wiktionary

PROPAROXYTONE, adjective. Pertaining to a word in any language, originally in ancient Greek, with the stress (or an acute accent) on the antepenultimate syllable.
PROPAROXYTONE, noun. A proparoxytone word

Dictionary definition

PROPAROXYTONE, noun. Word having stress or acute accent on the antepenult.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne