Word Meanings - PROPERISPOMENON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A word which has the circumflex accent on the penult.

Related words: (words related to PROPERISPOMENON)

• PENULTIMA
  See PENULT
• ACCENTUALITY
  The quality of being accentual.
• CIRCUMFLEXION
  1. The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form. 2. A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ACCENTUABLE
  Capable of being accented.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• PENULT
  The last syllable but one of a word; the syllable preceding the final one.
• ACCENTOR
  One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.
• ACCENTUATION
  Act of accentuating; applications of accent. Specifically
• PENULTIMATE
  Last but one; as, the penultimate syllable, the last syllable but one of a word.
• ACCENTLESS
  Without accent.
• ACCENTUALLY
  In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.
• ACCENTUATE
  1. To pronounce with an accent or with accents. 2. To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize. In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated. London Times. 3. To mark with the written accent.
• ACCENT
  Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse. A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure. A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure. The rythmical
• ACCENTUAL
  Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.
• CIRCUMFLEX
  circumflectere, circumflexum, to bend or turn about; circum + 1. A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable. Walker. 2. A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice
• ANTEPENULTIMATE
  Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two. -- n.
• ANTEPENULT; ANTEPENULTIMA
  The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl in monosyllable. (more info) syllaba) antepenultimate; ante before + paenultimus the last but one;