Stil
German edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
15th century, from Latin stilus. Doublet of the earlier borrowing Stiel (“stalk”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /stiːl/, /ʃtiːl/
- Many individual speakers vary between both pronunciations. /ʃ/ is more likely to be used in derived terms than in the simplex.
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -iːl
- Homophones: stiehl, Stiel (according to the pronunciation with /ʃ/)
Noun edit
Stil m (strong, genitive Stiles or Stils, plural Stile)
- 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 edit
Declension of Stil [masculine, strong]
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Lower Sorbian: stil
Further reading edit
- “Stil” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Stil” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Stil” in Duden online
- Stil on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de