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English
Pronunciation
Noun
stilus (plural stili)
- Alternative spelling of stylus.
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
From Latin stilus. Doublet of staili and tyyli.
Pronunciation
Noun
stilus
- stylus (sharp stick used in ancient times for writing in clay tablets)
Declension
Indonesian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin stilus, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp; to sting”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: sti‧lus
Noun
stilus (plural stilus-stilus, first-person possessive stilusku, second-person possessive stilusmu, third-person possessive stilusnya)
- stylus:
- (historical) an ancient writing implement consisting of a small rod with a pointed end for scratching letters on clay, wax-covered tablets or other surfaces, and a blunt end for obliterating them.
- (computing) a small device resembling a pen used to input handwritten text or drawings directly into an electronic device with a touch-sensitive screen.
- (botany) style: The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
- Synonym: stil (Standard Malay)
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Italic *stiglos (which stimulus and stiva may also be related to), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp; to sting”) + *-lós. In this case, related to instīgō (“to urge, stimulate, stir up”), Ancient Greek στῐ́ζω (stízō, “to mark with a pointed instrument”), Ancient Greek στῐ́γμᾰ (stígma, “mark, spot”), Proto-Germanic *stikaną (“to stick, stab”).[1] An alternative derivation relates the word to Avestan 𐬯𐬙𐬀𐬉𐬭𐬀 (staēra, “mountaintop”).[2]
Not related to Ancient Greek στῦλος (stûlos, “pillar; wooden pole”).
Pronunciation
Noun
stilus m (genitive stilī); second declension
- (in general) a stake, pale, spike
- Synonyms: pālus, sudis, tālea, vallus
c. 390 CE,
Ammianus Marcellinus,
Res Gestae 23.4.5:
- ab hac medietate restium ligneus stilus exsurgens obliquus
- From the middle of these ropes a wooden arm rises obliquely
- (agriculture) a pointed instrument for freeing plants from worms or from shoots which grow too rankly
4 CE – c. 70 CE,
Columella,
De Re Rustica 11.3.53:
- ; deinde eas confecto aequinoctio paululo infra terram secare et ligneo stilo laxatis vel rubi vel ferulae medullis stercus inmittere atque ita semina cucumeris inserere,
- (botany) a stem, stalk
4 CE – c. 70 CE,
Columella,
De Re Rustica 5.10.13:
- Omnis autem nux unam radicem mittit, et simplici stilo prorepit.
- (in particular) a stylus or pencil used for writing on waxen tablets
c. 35 CE – 100 CE,
Quintilian,
Institutio Oratoria 1.1.27:
- cum vero iam ductus sequi coeperit, non inutile erit eas tabellae quam optime insculpi, ut per illos velut sulcos ducatur stilus.
- As soon as the child has begun to know the shapes of the various letters, it will be no bad thing to have them cut as accurately as possible upon a board, so that the pen may be guided along the grooves.
- (transferred sense):
- an act of setting down in writing, composing, composition; the practice of composing; a manner of writing, mode of composition
- Synonyms: scriptiō, scriptūra
- a style in speaking, manner of speaking, mode of expression
1826, Stanislas Julien, Meng Tseu vel Mencius, page 46:Ejus stylus, tunc historicus.- Its style is historical.
- a decision, verdict, opinion
Inflection
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “stilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “stilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- stilus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- stilus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “stilus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “stilus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- ^ “stilo, istigare” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “stilus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 587