esdrújulo

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

Examples
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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

• In Spanish orthography, such words all have an accent written over the stressed vowel.

Coordinate terms

• agudo (“stressed on the last syllable”)
• llano, grave, paroxítono (“stressed on the penultimate syllable”)
• sobresdrújulo (“stressed on the preantepenultimate syllable”)

Derived terms

• esdrújula
• esdrujulismo
• esdrujulizar
• sobresdrújulo

Noun

esdrújulo m (plural esdrújulos)

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

Further reading

• “esdrújulo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10