stylohyoides

Latin

Etymology

From stylus (“a stake or pale”) +‎ -o- +‎ hȳoīdēs (“U-shaped”). Doublet of stylohȳoīdeus.

Pronunciation

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sti.lo.i.oˈi.des/, [st̪iloioˈiːd̪es]

Adjective

stylohȳoīdēs (neuter stylohȳoīdes or stylohȳoīdēs); third-declension one-termination adjective (Greek-type) (New Latin)

1. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the styloid process of the temporal bone and to the hyoid bone; stylohyoid.

Inflection

Third-declension one-termination adjective (Greek-type).

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	stylohȳoīdēs	stylohȳoīdes1 stylohȳoīdēs		stylohȳoīdēs	stylohȳoīda stylohȳoīdia2
genitive	stylohȳoīdis			stylohȳoīdum stylohȳoīdium2
dative	stylohȳoīdī			stylohȳoīdibus
accusative	stylohȳoīdem	stylohȳoīdes1 stylohȳoīdēs		stylohȳoīdēs	stylohȳoīda stylohȳoīdia2
ablative	stylohȳoīde stylohȳoīdī2			stylohȳoīdibus
vocative	stylohȳoīdes1 stylohȳoīdēs			stylohȳoīdēs	stylohȳoīda stylohȳoīdia2

¹It is unknown if Classical Latin preserved (or would have preserved) the shortness of the original Greek short ending.
²It is unknown whether adjectives of this type would use i-stem or consonant-stem endings in Classical Latin: the relevant forms are not attested. Depending on the word, either ending or both may be attested in New Latin.

Descendants

• → English: stylohyoid