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Accentual Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -al

Accentual has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

of or pertaining to accent or stress

2

(of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity

"accentual poetry is based on the number of stresses in a line"

"accentual rhythm"

3

Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

Related Terms
Antonyms
quantitative syllabic

Origin

This word comes from the Latin accentus, meaning a musical tone or stress, combined with the suffix -ual. It originally referred to something related to the placement of stress in speech.

Rhyming Words
qual dual equal joual usual manual casual sexual vidual ritual nahual annual arcual nagual genual mutual ungual actual bidual visual
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