Barytone
Barytone
A word without a final-syllable accent in Ancient Greek
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)