English

Noun

stylus ‎(plural styli or styluses)

1. A sharp stick used in ancient times for writing in clay tablets or other surfaces; a sharp tool for engraving.
   • 2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R28:

     [T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.

2. A phonograph needle.
3. A small plastic stick used as a pen for writing on the touch sensitive screen of an electronic gadget.
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

• stylograph
• stylophone

See also

• light pen, lightpen

Translations

Czech

Stylusy

Noun

stylus m

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

Declension

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsty.lus/, [ˈstʏ.ɫʊs]

Noun

stylus m ‎(genitive stylī); second declension

1. Alternative form of stilus

References

• stylus 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
• STYLUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “stylus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• stylus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers