-style1
Word Origin
1
a combining form of style (defs 14, 15):
blastostyle.
Compare stylo-1.
-style2
1
a combining form with the meanings “column,” “columned,” “having columns (of the kind specified)” used in the formation of compound words:
orthostyle; urostyle.
Compare stylo-2.
Origin
< Greek stŷlos column or -stȳlos -columned, adj. derivative of stŷlos
Related Words
- araeostyle
- cyclostyle
- cyrtostyle
- decastyle
- diastyle
- dodecastyle
-style
adjective or adverb combining form
: being in the style of
a Beaujolais-style wine
adjective or adverb combining form
: being in the style of
a Beaujolais-style wine
-style
suffix
- (forming adjectives and adverbs) in a manner characteristic of［构成形容词和副词］表示“…式样的（地）”：
-
family-style
church-style.
词源
from STYLE .
1934 Discovery June 174/1 He will have to put up at a Japanese style hotel.
1958 Listener 11 Sept. 368/1 He was dressed in European-style clothes.
1960 W. Thorp Amer. Writing in 20thCent. 296A series of events..convinced that revolution, Russian-style, would never take place in America. [ them]
1966 . [ see sedan 1 c]
1975 Country Life 20 Mar. 747/2 Elegant regency-style restaurant.
1967 G. Kelly in Coast to Coast 1965–6 95Bill Beatty leant across the table, his cigarette dangling casual style from his fingers.
1976 T. Sharpe Wilt (1978) vi. 61We're here idyllicstyle, cruising down the river in the good old summertime.
1944 W. Saroyan Human Comedy xxiv. 166He whistled, newsboy style.
1949 Amer. -GermanRev. Apr. 10Meals were served family-style.
1973 Guardian 31 Jan. 5/2 An election-style budget.
-style
I.\ˌstīl\ noun combining form
(-s)
Etymology: Late Latin -stylon, from Latin, neuter of -stylos characterized by the presence of (so many) pillars, from Greek, from stylos pillar — more at steer
1.
a. : structure characterized by the presence of (so many) pillars
< polystyle >
b. : structure with pillars
< cyrtostyle >
2. : animal part felt to resemble a pillar
< blastostyle >
< pygostyle >
II.adjective combining form
Etymology: Latin -stylos, from Greek, from stylos pillar
: characterized by the presence of (so many) pillars
< distyle >
I.
1.
a.
< polystyle >
b.
< cyrtostyle >
2.
< blastostyle >
< pygostyle >
II.
< distyle >
-style
Suffix
- column or having columns. Combining form is appended to make an adjective form.
- ortho- → orthostyle
Etymology
From Ancient Greek στῦλος (stûlos, “pillar, column”), or -στῦλος (-stûlos, “columned”).
Derived terms
English words suffixed with -style