stylusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• stilus

語源

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

発音

• IPA: /ˈstaɪ.ləs/
• 韻: -aɪləs

名詞

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.
   • 2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review”, in The Telegraph‎:

     [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.

   • 2019 July 28, Rob Picheta, “Ancient Roman pen with an inscribed joke found under streets of London”, in CNN‎:

     But that tactic may have older roots than we thought; archaeologists have discovered an iron stylus in London, complete with an inscribed joke, that dates back nearly 2,000 years.
     Of 200 styluses found at a site under Bloomberg’s new European headquarters, only one – dating back to around 70 A.D. – had a message inscribed onto it.

   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.
      • 2023 October 19, Mike Andronico, “Apple just revealed a new $79 Apple Pencil with USB-C — but is it right for you?”, in CNN‎:

        It’s the cheapest stylus Apple’s released yet, but you’ll need a USB-C iPad to use it.

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.

派生語

• stylo-, styl-

参考

• light pen, lightpen

参照

• “stylus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “stylus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

名詞

stylus m (genitive stylī); second declension

1. (proscribed) alternative form of stilus

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

派生した語

• → English: style, stylus

参照

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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