OXYTONE

PRONUNCIATION: (OK-si-tohn)

MEANING: adjective: Having stress on the last syllable.
noun: A word having stress on the last syllable.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek oxys (acute) + tonos (tone). Earliest documented use: 1720.
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ROXYTONE - member of a big-theater singing and dancing chorus line

OXY-TOME - a treatise on Element #8

OYTONE - Brooklyn (NY) dialect