Definition of "oxytone" [ox•y•tone]

• Relating to or being a Greek word that has an acute accent on its last syllable. (adjective)
• Relating to or being a word that has a heavy stress accent on its last syllable. (adjective)
• A word having the stress or the acute accent on the last syllable. (noun)

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• "And now I think about it, the Sanskrit accent actually makes a point in favor of the bisyllabic version of the word parśú- which is, due to the consonant 'grade', expected to be oxytone I think."
• "[2996] Amphilochius's doubt may have arisen from the fact that phagos, the Doric form of phegos, the esculent oak of Homer, is oxytone."