oxytonic, a.
(ɒksɪˈtɒnɪk)
Also oxyˈtonical.
[f. oxytone a. and n. + -ic.]
Characterized by an oxytone; designating a language in which the majority of words are oxytones.
| 1890 Century Dict., Oxytonical. 1954 Pei & Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 156 Oxytonic language, a language in which the majority of the words bear the main accent on the last syllable. 1963 Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 217 Armenian, like French, is oxytonic; with rare exceptions, the stress in a word falls on the last syllable. 1972 Hartmann & Stork Dict. Lang. & Linguistics 160/2 Oxytonic language, a language in which most words have fixed..stress on the final syllable. |