Barytone
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For the type of singing voice, see baritone.
In Ancient Greek grammar, a barytone is a word without any accent on the last syllable. Words with an acute or circumflex on the second-to-last or third-from-last syllable are barytones, as well as words with no accent on any syllable:
- τις "someone" (unaccented)
- ἄνθρωπος "person" (proparoxytone)
- μήτηρ "mother" (paroxytone)
- μοῦσα "muse" (properispomenon)
Like the word baritone, it comes from Ancient Greek barýtonos,[1] from barýs "heavy", "low"[2] and tónos "pitch", "sound".[3]
[edit] References
Herbert Weir Smyth. Greek Grammar. paragraph 158.
- ^ βαρύτονος. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at Perseus Project
- ^ βαρύς
- ^ τόνος
