esdrújulo

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian sdrucciolo. Compare Portuguese esdrúxulo and Catalan esdrúixol.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /esˈdɾuxulo/ [ezˈð̞ɾu.xu.lo]
  • Rhymes: -uxulo
  • Syllabification: es‧drú‧ju‧lo

Adjective

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Examples

teléfono, informática, and enciclopédico

esdrújulo (feminine esdrújula, masculine plural esdrújulos, feminine plural esdrújulas)

  1. (phonetics, of a word) proparoxytone (having its stress on the antepenultimate syllable)
    Synonym: proparoxítono
    • 1982, Richard Barrutia, Tracy D. Terrell, Fonética y fonología españolas [Spanish phonetics and phonology], →ISBN, page 101:
      Primero hay unas pocas palabras esdrújulas como análisis, hipótesis, regímenes que terminan en consonante que llevarán acento por ser esdrújulas, sea cual sea la consonante final.
      First there are a few proparoxytone words like análisis, hipótesis, regímenes that end in a consonant that would take an accent for being proparoxytone, whichever the final consonant.
  2. (poetry, of a verse) ending in a proparoxytone word

Usage notes

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Noun

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esdrújulo m (plural esdrújulos)

  1. (poetry) a verse ending in a proparoxytone word

Further reading

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