German

Noun

Stil m ‎(genitive Stils or Stiles, plural Stile)

1. style
   • 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Aus dem Lande der Ostseeritter, in Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun., page 73:

     Das Herrenhaus in Burkahnen war ein ganz altes Gebäude, das ursprünglich keinen Anspruch auf besonderen Stil erheben konnte, aber Dorothees Großeltern hatten es im klassizistischen Geschmack jener Tage neu herrichten lassen.

     The manor house in Burkahnen was a very old building, which originally could not claim a special style, but Dorothee's grandparents had had it renovated in the classicist taste of those days.

Declension

Derived terms

• im großen Stil
• Jugendstil
• stilmäßig
• stillos
• stilvoll

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stiːl/, [ˈstˢiːˀl]

Noun

stil c (singular definite stilen, plural indefinite stile)

1. style
2. manner
3. essay, paper

Inflection

Etymology 2

See stille ‎(“put, place”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sdel/, [ˈsd̥elˀ]

Verb

stil

1. imperative of stille

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪl

Adjective

stil ‎(comparative stiller, superlative stilst)

1. still, not moving
2. quiet, silent

Inflection

Derived terms

• stilte

Anagrams

• list, silt

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowing from German Stil, from French style, from Latin stilus.

Noun

stil m

1. style ‎(“manner of doing things, especially a fashionable one”)

Declension

Derived terms

• młoźinski stil
• stilist, stilistka
• stilistika
• stilistiski
• stilizěrowaś, stilizowaś
• stilowy

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin stilus and Old Norse stíll.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stiːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

stil m ‎(definite singular stilen, indefinite plural stiler, definite plural stilene)

1. style
2. exercise (task at school)
3. essay
4. manner (way one does something)
5. (i stor stil) on a large scale

Related terms

• stilisere

Derived terms

• hårstil
• livsstil
• stilfull

References

• “stil” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin stilus and Old Norse stíll.

Noun

stil m ‎(definite singular stilen, indefinite plural stilar, definite plural stilane)

1. style
2. exercise (task at school)
3. essay
4. manner (way one does something)
5. (i stor stil) on a large scale

Related terms

• stilisere

Derived terms

• hårstil
• livsstil
• stilfull

References

• “stil” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French style, from Latin stilus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stil/

Noun

stil n ‎(plural stiluri)

1. style, manner
2. genre

Declension

Derived terms

• stil de viață

See also

• fel
• gen

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stîl/

Noun

stȉl m ‎(Cyrillic spelling сти̏л)

1. style

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin stilus.

Pronunciation

Noun

stil c

1. a style (manner of doing things)

Declension

Related terms

• livsstil
• skrivstil
• stila
• stilig
• stilren