Paroxytone
In linguistics, a paroxytone is a word with either stress or a high accent on the penultimate syllable. An example of this in English is the word potato. It contrasts with proparoxytone, and oxytone.
In English, most words ending in -ic are paroxytones: músic, frántic, and phonétic but not rhétoric, aríthmetic, and Árabic.
In Italian and Portuguese as well as Spanish, most words are paroxytones. In Polish, almost all multisyllabic words are paroxytones except for certain verb conjugations and a few words of foreign origin.
In medieval Latin lyric poetry, a paroxytonic line or half-line is one in which the penultimate syllable is stressed, as in the second half of the verse "Estuans intrinsecus || ira vehementi."