Perispomenon
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In Ancient Greek grammar, a perispomenon ( ; ) is a word with a high-low pitch contour on the last syllable, indicated in writing by a tilde diacritic ( ) or an inverted breve accent mark ( ) in native transcriptions with the Greek alphabet, or by a circumflex accent mark ( ) in transcriptions with the Latin alphabet. A properispomenon has the same kind of accent, but on the penultimate syllable. Examples: * , theoû, "of a god", is a perispomenon * prâxis "business" is a properispomenon
In Ancient Greek grammar, a perispomenon ( ; ) is a word with a high-low pitch contour on the last syllable, indicated in writing by a tilde diacritic ( ) or an inverted breve accent mark ( ) in native transcriptions with the Greek alphabet, or by a circumflex accent mark ( ) in transcriptions with the Latin alphabet. A properispomenon has the same kind of accent, but on the penultimate syllable. Examples: , theoû, "of a god", is a perispomenon prâxis "business" is a properispomenon
Etymology
Peri-spṓmenon means "pronounced with a circumflex", the neuter of the present passive participle of peri-spáō "pronounce with a circumflex" (also "draw off"). Pro-peri-spṓmenon adds the prefix pró "before". , perispomeni, is the Greek name for the accent marks ( or ) used above Greek letters, also known as , oxýbarys, "high-low" or "acute-grave", and its original form as a circumflex accent ( ) was combining the acute ( ) and grave ( ) pitch accents occurring successively only in bimoraic syllables (with long vowels or diphthongs).
See also
Greek diacritics Circumflex Pitch accent Ultima (linguistics) Tone (linguistics)
References
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