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Oxytone

Definition: Oxytone

Oxytone

Noun

1. Word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Oxytone

English words defined with "oxytone": Oxytonical. (references)
Etymologies containing "oxytone": Paroxytone. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Oxytone

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Oxytone is a linguistic term for a word with stress on the last syllable. Related terms are paroxytone (stress on the last but one) and proparoxytone (accented on the last one but two).

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Oxytone."

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Modern Translation: Oxytone

Language Translations for "oxytone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

οξύτονοσ (accented on the last syllable). (various references)

   

Manx

  

ocsatoain. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oxytoneay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Oxytone

Derivations

Words beginning with "oxytone": oxytones. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Oxytone

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-n-o-o-t-x-y"

-2 letters: toney, toyon.

-3 letters: exon, next, note, onto, onyx, oxen, tone, tony, toon, toyo, tyne.

-4 letters: eon, net, noo, not, one, oot, oxo, oxy, ten, toe, ton, too, toy, tye, yen, yet, yon.

-5 letters: en, et, ex, ne, no, oe, on, ox, oy, to, ye, yo.

 Words containing the letters "e-n-o-o-t-x-y"
 

+1 letter: oxytones.

 

+3 letters: oxygenator.

 

+4 letters: oxygenation, oxygenators.

 

+5 letters: extortionary, neoorthodoxy, oxygenations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Oxytone


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 78 79 74 6F 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

---    -..-    -.--.    -    ---    -.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01111000 01111001 01110100 01101111 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#120 &#121 &#116 &#111 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0078 0079 0074 006F 006E 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

49909186818071

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Oxytone"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, Greagish, Greagagh

Manx

fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baghtManninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationεγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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