Barytone

For the type of singing voice, see baritone. For the obsolete string instrument, see baryton.

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, from barýs "heavy", "low" and tónos "pitch", "sound".

See also

• Ultima (linguistics)
• Pitch accent

References

Herbert Weir Smyth. Greek Grammar. paragraph 158.