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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD OXYTONE

From Greek oxytonos, from oxus sharp + tonos tone.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF OXYTONE

oxytone  [in the classical Greek language] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OXYTONE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Oxytone can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES OXYTONE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Oxytone

An oxytone is a word with the stress on the last syllable, such as the English words correct and reward. A paroxytone is stressed on the penultimate syllable. A proparoxytone is stressed on the antepenultimate syllable.

Definition of oxytone in the English dictionary

The definition of oxytone in the dictionary is having an accent on the final syllable. Other definition of oxytone is an oxytone word.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OXYTONE

oxyhaemoglobin
oxyhemoglobin
oxyhydrogen
oxymel
oxymora
oxymoron
oxymoronic
oxymoronically
oxyntic
oxyphenbutazone
oxyphil
oxyphilic
oxyrhynchus
oxysalt
oxysome
oxysulphide
oxytetracycline
oxytocic
oxytocin
oxyuriasis

WORDS THAT END LIKE OXYTONE

barytone
cornerstone
Crotone
firestone
gemstone
Gladstone
hearthstone
keystone
kill two birds with one stone
limestone
milestone
paroxytone
proparoxytone
rhinestone
ringtone
rolling stone
stepping stone
stone
tone
two-tone

Synonyms and antonyms of oxytone in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «oxytone» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OXYTONE

Find out the translation of oxytone to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of oxytone from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «oxytone» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

oxytone
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

oxytone
570 millions of speakers

English

oxytone
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

oxytone
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

oxytone
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

oxytone
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

oxítona
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

oxytone
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Oxytone
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Oxytone
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Oxytonon
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

oxytone
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

oxytone
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kapindho
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

oxytone
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

oxytone
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ऑक्सीटोोन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

oxytone
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Oxytone
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

oxytone
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

oxytone
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

oxytone
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

oxytone
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oxytone
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oxytone
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

oxytone
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of oxytone

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OXYTONE»

The term «oxytone» is used very little and occupies the 168.960 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OXYTONE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «oxytone» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «oxytone» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about oxytone

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OXYTONE»

Discover the use of oxytone in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to oxytone and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Grammar of the Greek Language: For Use of Schools and Colleges
(a) Adjectives in -os preceded by a mute are commonly oxytone, especially those in -kos, verbals in -ros, and ordinals in -o-ros : kglkos, apxucbs, opdros, eiKoaros, xa^eir6s, aotpbs, SoXixbs, dyaObs. So verbal nouns in -os denoting the agent: ...
Alpheus Crosby, 1871
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The Accentual System of Masculine Nouns in "Krivici" Dialects
Summary of the Distributive Analysis for All the Dialects The analysis shows that in some dialects only a restricted range of vowels occurs among oxytone AP-D words. For example, we see that the vowels *o and *o ̨ comprise the largest ...
Miriam-Maria Shrager, 2007
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The System of Nominal Accentuation in Sanskrit and ...
The accentual distribution of this category depends on the ablaut grade of the root: i- and u-stems a-stems Full grade barytone (2:0) barytone (6:1) Zero-grade oxytone (6:1) oxytone (3:1) B. Derivatives with a non-contiguous stop. The material ...
A. M. Lubotsky, 1988
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A Practical Introduction to Greek Accentuation by Henry W. ...
Thus much seems clear: 1°. that when declined in 11!, gen. on, they are paroxytone; 2°. that however declined, they are in Attic also paroxytone; and 3°. that in the common dialect they are oxytone when belonging to the third declension.
Henry William Chandler, 1862
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Elements of Greek Prosody
Those in vog, wherein a consonant precedes v, are oxytone : Ttpwvog, arpvtyvog, l<r\v6g, ayvog, arvyvog, iptSvog, KtSvog, tpsfisvvog, ipavvog, ipt/xvog, yvfivog, ipvfivog, irvKVog, tcpanrvoQ. The contracts from forms in avog retain the accent ...
Franz Ernst Heinrich Spitzner, 1831
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Elements of Greek accentuation, tr. by a member of the ...
Tojuoe passive : rofiog active." 6. Those in rifiog are barytone as proper names, oxytone as appellatives : krjjuoe, kvijjuoe, Sjjjuoe (fat). Note. — AP/itoe (people) is barytone. 7. Those in vfiog are oxytone; only Svfiog (thyme) is pa- roxytone. / 8.
Karl Wilhelm Goettling, 1831
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A grammar of the Greek language
Very few neuters are oxytone ; and most neuters are accented as far back as possible (§ 734. a) ; as, po^toi, trorvigiov, lu^Htsr, ogvsov, skcciov. § 73 8« Special Rules of Dec. III. (a) All nouns in -av, -tut, •a>s (G. -oos), -as (-aSo;), -Tf (- rSsj), ...
Alpheus Crosby, 1846
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Oxytone: Syllable, Paroxytone, Proparoxytone, English ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken, 2010
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Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy
Since in Italian, especially in poetic Italian, infinitives show truncated allomorphs which end with the liquid sonorant after loss of the final vowel (cantâr, vedér, sentír), the oxytone forms may also be considered truncated, if truncation is defined ...
Lori Repetti, 2000
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Greek Grammar for the Use of Schools: Translated from the ...
those in cm oxytone; e. g. iroa and woia (grass), □%p6a and ^poia (skin). Exceptions : arod (a porch) is oxytone ; Tpola paroxytone ; and the compounds in (iota, irXota, voia, and ir\oia, are proparoxytone. • : Substantives in va are paroxytone, ...
Valentin Christian Friedrich Rost, 1829

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OXYTONE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term oxytone is used in the context of the following news items.
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Defiance: We Need Your Questions for Executive Producer Kevin …
Oxytone · May 07, 2013. What is the likelihood that full information about the languages of Defiance will be made publically available? Reply. «TV.com, May 13»
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Charolais in Demand at Carlisle
Mr Wilson offered a second WBQIS qualifier, Ugie Valiant CH32 (December 2004), a Turbo son and out of a Maerdy Oxytone sired cow. «Stackyard, May 06»

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