different between stile vs stipe

English

Etymology

From Middle English stile, style, sti?ele, from Old English sti?el (“stile, set of steps for getting over a fence”), from Proto-Germanic *stigil? (“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”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /sta?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l
• Homophone: style

Noun

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, chapter 4, in Moonfleet:

     '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 frame or panel, such as that of a door, window, or ladder.
3. Obsolete spelling of style

Alternative forms

• style

Holonyms

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

Related terms

• turnstile

Translations

Verb

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

1. Obsolete form of style.

Further reading

• stile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French style.

Noun

stile m (plural stili)

1. style
2. class

Related terms

• stile di vita
• stile libero
• stilistico

Anagrams

• lesti, liste, steli

Latin

Noun

stile

1. vocative singular of stilus

Lower Sorbian

Noun

stile

1. nominative/accusative plural of stil

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English sti?el, from Proto-Germanic *stigil?.

Alternative forms

• style, sti?ele, steyl, steyle

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sti?l/, /st?i?l/

Noun

stile (plural styles)

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

Descendants

• English: stile
• Scots: style

References

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

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• style, stiel, styell

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sti?l(?)/, /?stil(?)/

Noun

stile (plural stilez)

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

Descendants

• English: style
• Scots: style

References

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

Middle French

Alternative forms

• stille
• style

Noun

stile m (plural stiles)

1. style

Descendants

• French: style

English

Etymology

From French stipe, from Latin stipes (“a stock, post, branch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta?p/
• Rhymes: -a?p

Noun

stipe (plural stipes)

1. The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.
2. The trunk of a tree.
3. The caudicle within the pollinarium of an orchid flower
4. The petiole of the frond of a fern or palm

Related terms

• stipitate
• stipule

Anagrams

• IP set, piets, piste, septi-, spite

Latin

Noun

stipe

1. ablative singular of stips

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

stipe c (plural stipen, diminutive stypke)

1. support beam
2. support, aid

Further reading

• “stipe (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011