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]

References

Herbert Weir Smyth. Greek Grammar. paragraph 158.

  1. ↑ βαρύτονος. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
  2. ↑ βαρύς
  3. ↑ τόνος

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