Barytone

In Ancient Greek grammar, a barytone is a word without any accent on the last syllable. Words with an acute or circumflex on the second-to-last or third-from-last syllable are barytones, as well as words with no accent on any syllable:

• τις 'someone' (unaccented)
• ἄνθρωπος 'person' (proparoxytone)
• μήτηρ 'mother' (paroxytone)
• μοῦσα 'muse' (properispomenon)

Herbert Weir Smyth. Greek Grammar. paragraph 158.

1. ^ βαρύτονος. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
2. ^ βαρύς
3. ^ τόνος

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