Barytone
A word without a final-syllable accent in Ancient Greek
In Ancient Greek grammar, a barytone is a word without any accent on the last syllable. Words with an acute or circumflex on the second-to-last or third-from-last syllable are barytones, as well as words with no accent on any syllable:
- τις 'someone' (unaccented)
- ἄνθρωπος 'person' (proparoxytone)
- μήτηρ 'mother' (paroxytone)
- μοῦσα 'muse' (properispomenon)
Etymology
Like the word baritone, it comes from Ancient Greek barýtonos,[1] from barýs 'heavy; low'[2] and tónos 'pitch; sound'.[3]
See also
- Pitch accent
- Oxytone
- Ultima (linguistics)
References
Herbert Weir Smyth. Greek Grammar. paragraph 158.
- ^ βαρύτονος. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
- ^ βαρύς
- ^ τόνος
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