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6-letter words (1 found)

STYLUS,

5-letter words (3 found)

LUSTS,LUSTY,SLUTS,

4-letter words (2 found)

LUST,SLUT,

3-letter words (5 found)

SLY,STY,SUS,UTS,YUS,

2-letter words (4 found)

ST,US,UT,YU,

You can make 15 words from stylus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of stylus

stylus

Alternative forms

  • stilus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stylus (“a stake or pale”). Probably not directly related to Ancient Greek στῦλος (stûlos, “a pillar”). Doublet of style.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstaɪ.ləs/
  • Rhymes: -aɪləs

Noun

stylus (plural styli or styluses)

  1. (writing) 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.
    1. A small implement with a pointed end used for engraving and tracing.
    2. (computing) A small device resembling a pen used to input handwritten text or drawings directly into an electronic device with a touch-sensitive screen.
  2. A hard-pointed pen-shaped instrument for marking on stencils used in a mimeograph machine.
  3. A hard point, typically of diamond or sapphire, following a groove in a phonograph and transmitting the recorded sound for reproduction.
    Synonym: needle
    1. A pointed device formerly used to produce a groove in a record when recording sound.
  4. A tool for making small dots on a piece of heavy paper, used to produce Braille writing for the blind by hand.
  5. (botany) Synonym of style.

Derived terms

  • stylo-, styl-

Translations

See also

  • light pen, lightpen

References

  • “stylus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “stylus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈstɪlus]

Noun

stylus m inan

  1. (computing) stylus (small plastic stick used as a pen for writing on the touch sensitive screen of an electronic gadget)

Declension

Noun

stylus m inan

  1. (historical) stylus (instrument for writing on wax tablets)
    Alternative form: stilus
  2. (botany) pedicel

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stylus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsti.lʏs/
  • Hyphenation: sty‧lus

Noun

stylus m (plural stylussen)

  1. stylus (sharp pen used for writing on clay tablets or wax tablets)
  2. stylus (plastic stick used for interacting with touch-screen devices)

Related terms

  • stylo

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsty.lus/, [ˈs̠t̪ʏɫ̪ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsti.lus/, [ˈst̪iːlus]

Noun

stylus m (genitive stylī); second declension

  1. (proscribed) Alternative form of stilus

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

  • → English: style, stylus

References

  • “stylus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    “stilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “stylus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    “stilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • stylus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    stilus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • stylus 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)
  • “stylus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
    “stilus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek stylus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɨ.lus/
  • Rhymes: -ɨlus
  • Syllabification: sty‧lus

Noun

stylus m inan

  1. (historical) stylus (ancient writing implement consisting of a small rod with a pointed end for scratching letters on clay)

Declension

References

Further reading

  • stylus in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “stylus”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎[2]
  • stylus in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Source: wiktionary.org