stile

• style

From Middle English stile, style, stiȝele, from Old English stiġel (“stile, set of steps for getting over a fence”), from Proto-Germanic *stigilō (“entry, entrance, overpass, device for climbing, stile”), equivalent to sty (“to ascend, climb”) +‎ -le. Cognate with Dutch stijl (“stile”), Dutch stegel (“stirrup”), Low German Stegel (“stile”), German Stiegel (“stile”).

• IPA^(key): /staɪl/
• Rhymes: -aɪl
• Homophone: style

stile (plural stiles)

1. A set of one or more steps surmounting a fence or wall, or a narrow gate or contrived passage through a fence or wall, which in either case allows people but not livestock to pass.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     'Twas very true what Greening said; for of a summer evening I would take the path that led up Weatherbeech Hill, behind the Manor; both because 'twas a walk that had a good prospect in itself, and also a sweet charm for me, namely, the hope of seeing Grace Maskew. And there I often sat upon the stile that ends the path and opens on the down, and watched the old half-ruined house below; and sometimes saw white-frocked Gracie walking on the terrace in the evening sun, and sometimes in returning passed her window near enough to wave a greeting.

2. A vertical component of a panel or frame, such as that of a door, window or ladder.
3. A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Moxon to this entry?)

4. (obsolete) A mode of composition; a style.
   • Bunyan

     May I not write in such a stile as this?

• (vertical component of a panel or frame): leaf

• turnstile

stile (third-person singular simple present stiles, present participle stiling, simple past and past participle stiled)

1. Obsolete form of style.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:

     This fellow, I say, stiled himself a lawyer, but was indeed a most vile petty-fogger, without sense or knowledge of any kind; one of those who may be termed train-bearers to the law […]

• stile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IELTS, Leist, Steil, e-list, islet, istle, liest, lites, slite, teils, tiles

Borrowed from French style.

stile m (plural stili)

1. style
2. class

• stile di vita
• stile libero
• stilistico

• lesti, liste, steli

stile

1. vocative singular of stilus

stile

1. nominative and accusative plural of stil

From Old English stiġel, from Proto-Germanic *stigilō.

• style, stiȝele, steyl, steyle

• IPA^(key): /stiːl/, /stɛi̯l/

stile (plural styles)

1. stile (set of stairs over a bank or wall)
2. A rung or bar of a ladder.

• English: stile
• Scots: style

• “stīle (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-08.

From Medieval Latin stylus and Old French estile, style, from Latin stilus.

• style, stiel, styell

• IPA^(key): /ˈstiːl(ə)/, /ˈstil(ə)/

stile (plural stilez)

1. A stylus, pen, or quill.
2. A written essay or monograph.
3. The topic or subject of such a essay or monograph.
4. style (the personal way something is written)
5. style (The way one acts or presents oneself)
6. style (the mode of reference towards someone with a title)
7. (rare) The stem or stalk of a plant.

• English: style
• Scots: style

• “stīle (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-08.

• stille
• style

stile m (plural stiles)

1. style
   • 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais:

     Si est ce, que les vieils du Senat, memoratifs des moeurs de leurs peres, accuserent cette pratique comme ennemie de leur stile antien

     It is that the older members of the Senate, remembering the customs on their fathers, accused this practice of being the enemy of their ancient style

• French: style