properispomenon

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek προπερισπώμενον (properispṓmenon).

• IPA^(key): /pɹəʊpɛɹɪˈspɒmənɒn/

properispomenon (not comparable)

1. (linguistics, of a word) In Greek grammar, having a circumflex accent on the penultimate syllable.

   Coordinate terms: perispomenon, oxytone, paroxytone, proparoxytone, barytone

• properispomenal

properispomenon (plural properispomenons or properispomena)

1. (linguistics) A word having such an accent.

   Coordinate terms: perispomenon, oxytone, paroxytone, proparoxytone, barytone

• properispome

• ‘properispo·menon’ s.v. “Properispome, a. and sb.” on page 1,470/3 of volume VII (O–P, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray, 1908) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)