Origin: Latin suffix -al
Accentual has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
of or pertaining to accent or stress
(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"
Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.
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.