stylohyoides

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Latin

Etymology

From stylus (“a stake or pale”) +‎ -o- +‎ hȳoīdēs (“U-shaped”). Doublet of stylohȳoīdeus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

stylohȳoīdēs (neuter stylohȳoīdes or stylohȳoīdēs); third-declension one-termination adjective (Greek-type) (New Latin)

  1. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the styloid process of the temporal bone and to the hyoid bone; stylohyoid.

Inflection

Third-declension one-termination adjective (Greek-type).

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative stylohȳoīdēs stylohȳoīdes1
stylohȳoīdēs 		stylohȳoīdēs stylohȳoīda
stylohȳoīdia2
genitive stylohȳoīdis stylohȳoīdum
stylohȳoīdium2
dative stylohȳoīdī stylohȳoīdibus
accusative stylohȳoīdem stylohȳoīdes1
stylohȳoīdēs 		stylohȳoīdēs stylohȳoīda
stylohȳoīdia2
ablative stylohȳoīde
stylohȳoīdī2 		stylohȳoīdibus
vocative stylohȳoīdes1
stylohȳoīdēs 		stylohȳoīdēs stylohȳoīda
stylohȳoīdia2

1It is unknown if Classical Latin preserved (or would have preserved) the shortness of the original Greek short ending.
2It is unknown whether adjectives of this type would use i-stem or consonant-stem endings in Classical Latin: the relevant forms are not attested. Depending on the word, either ending or both may be attested in New Latin.

Descendants

  • → English: stylohyoid
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