Noun: sty
Sample Sentences
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To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty. (Comus) [1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like sty
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English sty, from Old English stī, stiġ (“sty, pen, a wooden enclosure; hall”, chiefly in compounds), from Proto-West Germanic *stī, from Proto-Germanic *stiją.
2. Cognate with German Stiege (“wooden crate”), dialectal German Steige (“hen-coop”), Danish sti (“sty, enclosure for swine, sheep, hens, etc.”), Swedish stia (“sty for pigs, geese, etc.”), Norwegian sti (“flock of sheep”), Icelandic stía (“a kennel”). See: Middle English Nouns '
sty', German Nouns '
Stiege', Danish Nouns '
sti', Swedish Nouns '
stia', Icelandic Nouns '
stía'.
Verbs referencing "sty"
Italian Nouns
stia, Swedish Nouns
stia, Finnish Nouns
sija, Dutch Nouns
stijg, Ancient Greek Nouns
στίχος, German Nouns
Steig, Icelandic Nouns
stía, Ancient Greek Nouns
στίξ, Ancient Greek Nouns
στοχάς.