different between style vs gnomon

English

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English stile, stel, stele, stiel, stiele, stil, still, stille, styele, style, styill, styll, styyl (“writing tool, stylus; piece of written work; characteristic mode of expression, particularly one regarded as high quality; demeanour, manner, way of life; person's designation or title; stem of a plant; period of time”), from Old French style, estile, stil, stile (modern French style), or from Medieval Latin stylus, both from Latin stilus (“pointed instrument, pale, spike, stake; writing tool, stylus; act of setting down in writing, composition; characteristic mode of expression, style; stem of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp; to pierce, prick, puncture, stab; to goad”). Doublet of stylus.

The English word is cognate with Catalan estil (“engraving tool, stylus; gnomon; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace”), German Stiel (“handle; stalk”), Italian stilo (“needle, stylus; fountain pen; beam; gnomon; part of pistil, style”), Occitan estil, Portuguese estilo (“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style”), Spanish estilo (“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace; part of pistil, style”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

style (countable and uncountable, plural styles)

1. Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.
   1. (historical) A sharp stick used for writing on clay tablets or other surfaces; a stylus; (by extension, obsolete) an instrument used to write with ink; a pen.
   2. A tool with a sharp point used in engraving; a burin, a graver, a stylet, a stylus.
   3. The gnomon or pin of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.
   4. (botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.

      Synonym: stylet
   5. (surgery) A kind of surgical instrument with a blunt point, used for exploration.

      Synonym: stylet

   6. (zoology) A small, thin, pointed body part.

      Synonym: stylet

      1. (entomology) A long, slender, bristle-like process near the anal region.

2. (by extension from sense 1.1) A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good.
   1. A legal or traditional term or formula of words used to address or refer to a person, especially a monarch or a person holding a post or having a title.
3. A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art.
   1. A particular manner of acting or behaving; (specifically) one regarded as fashionable or skilful; flair, grace.
   2. A particular way in which one grooms, adorns, dresses, or carries oneself; (specifically) a way thought to be attractive or fashionable.
   3. (computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as boldface or italics.
   4. (printing, publishing) A set of rules regarding the presentation of text (spelling, typography, the citation of references, etc.) and illustrations that is applied by a publisher to the works it produces.

Alternative forms

• stile (obsolete)
• stylee (music, slang)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????
• ? Korean: ??? (seutail)

Related terms

• stylus

Translations

See also

• substance

Verb

style (third-person singular simple present styles, present participle styling, simple past and past participle styled)

1. (transitive) To design, fashion, make, or arrange in a certain way or form (style)
2. (transitive, formal) To call or give a name or title to.

   Synonyms: designate, dub, name; see also Thesaurus:denominate
3. (transitive, informal) To create for, or give to, someone a style, fashion, or image, particularly one which is regarded as attractive, tasteful, or trendy.
4. (intransitive, US, informal) To act in a way which seeks to show that one possesses style.

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• stile (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• style (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• lyest, tyles

French

Alternative forms

• stile (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French stile, from Old French estile, borrowed from Latin stilus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stil/

Noun

style m (plural styles)

1. style (manner of doing something)
2. (botany) style (of a flower)
3. fashion, trend, style
4. (colloquial) style (personal comportment)
5. flair
6. (art) style; method characteristic of an artist; artistic manner or characteristic by which an artistic movement may be defined
7. gnomon, style (needle of a sundial)
8. (dated, historical) stylus, style (implement for writing on tablets)
9. complement of jargon particular to a field; style (manner of writing specific to a field or discipline)
10. sort, type; category of things

Synonyms

• (manner of doing): façon, manière
• (artistic characteristic): genre
• (needle of a sundial): aiguille (d'un cadran), gnomon
• (stylus): stylet
• (category): espèce, genre, sorte, type

Derived terms

Further reading

• “style” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English sti?el.

Noun

style

1. Alternative form of stile (“stile”)

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin stylus.

Noun

style

1. Alternative form of stile (“style”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?.l?/

Noun

style

1. plural of styl
2. accusative plural of styl
3. vocative plural of styl

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English style.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /is.?taj.li/, /?staj.li/, /i?.?taj.li/

Adjective

style (invariable, comparable)

1. (Brazil, slang) stylish

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French gnomon, or directly from its etymon Latin gn?m?n, or directly from its etymon Ancient Greek ?????? (gn?m?n, “discerner, interpreter; carpenter’s square; gnomon of a sundial; (geometry) gnomon”), from ???????? (gign?sk?, “to be aware of; to perceive; to know”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?neh?- (“to know”); the word is thus related to know.

The geometry sense (sense 4) is from the resemblance of the plane figure to a carpenter’s square. Similarly, a gnomon in mathematics (sense 4) is also shaped like a carpenter’s square when depicted pictorially if the figurate numbers are squares.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n??m?n/, /-m?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?no?m?n/, /-m?n/
• Hyphenation: gno?mon

Noun

gnomon (plural gnomons)

1. An object such as a pillar or a rod that is used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it, especially the pointer on a sundial. [from mid 16th c.]

   Synonyms: cock, style
2. An object such as a pillar used by an observer to calculate the meridian altitude of the sun (that is, the altitude of the sun when it reaches the observer's meridian), for the purpose of determining the observer's latitude.
3. The index of the hour circle of a globe.
4. (geometry) A plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram.
5. (mathematics, by extension) A number representing the increment between two figurate numbers (“numbers equal to the numbers of dots in geometric figures formed of dots”).

Related terms

• gnomonic
• gnomonics

Translations

References

Further reading

• gnomon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gnomon (figure) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gnomon (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gnomon in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• gnomon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• gnomon at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “gnomon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Esperanto

Noun

gnomon

1. accusative singular of gnomo

French

Etymology

From Latin gn?m?n, from Ancient Greek ?????? (gn?m?n, “indicator”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?.m??/

Noun

gnomon

1. gnomon

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (gn?m?n, “discerner, interpreter; gnomon of a sundial”), from ???????? (gign?sk?, “to be aware of; to perceive; to know”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?neh?- (“to know”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??no?.mo?n/, [??no?mo?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??o.mon/, [????m?n]

Noun

gn?m?n m (genitive gn?monis); third declension

1. gnomon; pillar or rod on a sundial whose shadow is used to indicate the time

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• gn?monic?
• gn?monicus

Descendants

• Catalan: gnòmon
• English: gnomon
• French: gnomon
• Italian: gnomone
• Portuguese: gnômon
• Romanian: gnomon
• Spanish: gnomon

References

• gnomon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gnomon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Polish

Noun

gnomon m inan

1. gnomon

Declension

Further reading

• gnomon in Polish dictionaries at PWN