TOPICS

Accent and Accent-Marking in Ancient Greek

Contonation and Mora

The Last 3 Syllables and the Accents
•acute
•circumflex
•grave
•ultima
•penult
•antepenult
•more examples

Proclitics

Enclitics

Multiple Clitics

Traditional Terminology

Persistent Accentuation
• a- and o-declension
• consonant declension

Recessive Accentuation

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The ultima, if long and accented, may have a circumflex (whether in isolation or not) or an acute (in isolation or before punctuation or enclitic; otherwise a grave is substituted). In this case the type of accent must be learned for each word or particular inflectional pattern.

ἡ ὁδὸς μακρά.     “The road is long.”
acute on long U before punctuation

μακρὰ ἡ ὁδός.     “The road is long.”
grave on long U within connected utterance

τὸν ποιητὴν διαβάλλει.     “He slanders the poet.”
grave on long U (accusative case of an a-declension noun) in connected utterance

τοῦ ποιητοῦ κατηγορεῖ.     “He accuses the poet.”
circumflex on long U (genitive case of an a-declension noun) (position of the word does not matter)

κατηγορεῖ τοῦ ποιητοῦ.     “He accuses the poet.”
circumflex on long U (genitive case of an a-declension noun) (position of the word does not matter)