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.

  1. ^ βαρύτονος. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
  2. ^ βαρύς
  3. ^ τόνος


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