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Proparoxytone ((ギリシア語:προπαροξύτονος, ''proparoxýtonos'')) is a linguistic term for a word with stress on the antepenultimate (third last) syllable such as the English words "cinema" and "operational". Related terms are paroxytone (stress on the last but one) and oxytone (accented on the last one). In English, most nouns of three or more syllables are proparoxytones. This tendency is so strong in English that it frequently leads to the stress moving to a different part of the root in order to preserve an antepenultimate stress. For example, the root photograph gives rise to the nouns photography and photographer. In medieval Latin lyric poetry, a ''proparoxytonic'' line or half-line is one where the antepenultimate syllable is stressed, as in the first half of the verse "Estuans intrinsecus || ira vehementi." == Mentions in Literature == Ernst Robert Curtius offers an interesting use of the term in a footnote (Ch. 8, n. 33) of his ''European Literature in the Latin Middle Ages''. He is commenting on this passage from Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel's didactic poem on grammar: :''Partibus inferior jacet interiectio cunctis'' :''Ultima namque sedet et sine laude manet.'' Here is Curtius' note: "Sad is the lot of the interjection, for of all the parts of speech it has the lowest place. There is none to praise it." On the way from Latin to French, the penultimate syllable of the proparoxytone succumbed. Mallarmé was so touched by this that he wrote a prose poem on the "Death of the Penultimate" (''Le Démon de l'analogie'' in ''Divagations''). It ends: Je m'enfuis, bizarre, personne condamnée à porter probablement le deuil de l'explicable Penultième." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Proparoxytone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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