oxytone
(noun) word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable
Source: WordNet® 3.1
oxytone (not comparable)
(linguistics, of a word) Having the stress or an acute accent on the last syllable.
oxytone (plural oxytones)
(linguistics) A word with the stress or an acute accent on the last syllable.
• barytone
• paroxytone
• proparoxytone
Source: Wiktionary
Ox"y*tone, a. Etym: [Gr.
Definition: Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable.
Ox"y*tone, n.
1. An acute sound.
2. (Gr. Gram.)
Definition: A word having the acute accent on the last syllable.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
1 July 2025
(noun) the state of being a slave; “So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity”--Shakespeare
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
