esdrújulo
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian sdrucciolo. Compare Portuguese esdrúxulo and Catalan esdrúixol.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /esˈdɾuxulo/ [ezˈð̞ɾu.xu.lo]
- Rhymes: -uxulo
- Syllabification: es‧drú‧ju‧lo
Adjective
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teléfono, informática, and enciclopédico |
esdrújulo (feminine esdrújula, masculine plural esdrújulos, feminine plural esdrújulas)
- (phonetics, of a word) proparoxytone (having its stress on the antepenultimate syllable)
- Synonym: proparoxítono
- 1982, Richard Barrutia, Tracy D. Terrell, Fonética y fonología españolas [Spanish phonetics and phonology], →ISBN, page 101:
- Primero hay unas pocas palabras esdrújulas como análisis, hipótesis, regímenes que terminan en consonante que llevarán acento por ser esdrújulas, sea cual sea la consonante final.
- First there are a few proparoxytone words like análisis, hipótesis, regímenes that end in a consonant that would take an accent for being proparoxytone, whichever the final consonant.
- (poetry, of a verse) ending in a proparoxytone word
Usage notes
- In Spanish orthography, such words all have an accent written over the stressed vowel.
Coordinate terms
- agudo (“stressed on the last syllable”)
- llano, grave, paroxítono (“stressed on the penultimate syllable”)
- sobresdrújulo (“stressed on the preantepenultimate syllable”)
Derived terms
- esdrújula
- esdrujulismo
- esdrujulizar
- sobresdrújulo
Further reading
- “esdrújulo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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