Barytone

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)

Etymology

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.

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

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[1] βαρύτονος. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project

[2] βαρύς

[3] τόνος

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