stilus

stilus (plural stili)

1. Alternative form of stylus

From Latin stilus.

stilus

1. stylus (sharp stick used in ancient times for writing in clay tablets)

• stylus (proscribed)

From Proto-Indo-European *steyg-. Related to instīgō, instigare. Cognate with Ancient Greek στίζω (stízō, “to mark with a pointed instrument”), Proto-Germanic *stikaną (“to stick, to stab”).[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.lus/, [ˈstɪ.ɫʊs]

stilus m (genitive stilī); second declension

1. A pointed instrument; stake, pale, spike.
2. A stylus or pencil used for writing on waxen tablets.
3. (botany) The stem of a plant.
4. (by extension) The act of setting down in writing, composing, composition; manner of writing, style.
5. (by extension) A style in speaking, manner of speaking.
   • 1826, Stanislaus Julien translating Mencius as Meng Tseu, p. 46:

     Ejus stylus, tunc historicus.

     Its [sc. The Spring and Autumn Annals'] style is historical.

Second-declension noun.

• (stake): pālus, sudis, tālea, vallus

• stilō

• 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, 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