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 === esdrújulo (feminine esdrújula, masculine plural esdrújulos, feminine plural esdrújulas) (phonetics, of a word) proparoxytone (having its stress on the antepenultimate syllable) Synonym: proparoxítono (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 ==== === Noun === esdrújulo m (plural esdrújulos) (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 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025