different between stylus vs stylography

English

Alternative forms

• stilus

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sta?.l?s/
• Rhymes: -a?l?s

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

References

• “stylus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “stylus”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

See also

• light pen, lightpen

Czech

Noun

stylus m

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

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stylus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sti.l?s/
• 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): /?sty.lus/, [?s?t?????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sti.lus/, [?st?i?lus]

Noun

stylus m (genitive styl?); 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, 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

English

Etymology

style (stylus) + -graphy

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

stylography (uncountable)

1. The process of drawing or writing using a stylus onto a wax tablet, etc.

Derived terms

• stylograph
• stylographic
• stylographical
• stylographically