Stil
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German
Alternative forms
Etymology
15th century, from Latin stilus. Doublet of the earlier borrowing Stiel (“stalk”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stiːl/, /ʃtiːl/
- Many individual speakers vary between both pronunciations. /ʃ/ is more likely to be used in derived terms than in the simplex.
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -iːl
- Homophones: stiehl, Stiel (according to the pronunciation with /ʃ/)
Noun
Stil m (strong, genitive Stiles or Stils, plural Stile)
- style
- 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, “Aus dem Lande der Ostseeritter”, in Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun., page 73:
- Das Herrenhaus in Burkahnen war ein ganz altes Gebäude, das ursprünglich keinen Anspruch auf besonderen Stil erheben konnte, aber Dorothees Großeltern hatten es im klassizistischen Geschmack jener Tage neu herrichten lassen.
- The manor house in Burkahnen was a very old building, which originally could not claim a special style, but Dorothee's grandparents had had it renovated in the classicist taste of those days.
Declension
Declension of Stil
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Lower Sorbian: stil
Further reading
- “Stil” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Stil” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Stil” in Duden online
Stil on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
