stylohyoides
Latin
Etymology
From stylus (“a stake or pale”) + -o- + hȳoīdēs (“U-shaped”). Doublet of stylohȳoīdeus.
Pronunciation
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sti.lo.i.oˈi.des/, [st̪i.lɔ.i.ɔˈiː.d̪ɛs]
Adjective
stylohȳoīdēs (neuter stylohȳoīdes or stylohȳoīdēs); third-declension one-termination adjective (Greek-type) (New Latin)
- (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).
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | stylohȳoīdēs | stylohȳoīdes1 stylohȳoīdēs | stylohȳoīdēs | stylohȳoīdia | |
| Genitive | stylohȳoīdis | stylohȳoīdium | |||
| Dative | stylohȳoīdī | stylohȳoīdibus | |||
| Accusative | stylohȳoīdem | stylohȳoīdes1 stylohȳoīdēs | stylohȳoīdēs | stylohȳoīdia | |
| Ablative | stylohȳoīdī | stylohȳoīdibus | |||
| Vocative | stylohȳoīdes1 stylohȳoīdēs | stylohȳoīdēs | stylohȳoīdia | ||
1It is unknown if Classical Latin preserved (or would have preserved) the shortness of the original Greek short ending.
Descendants
- → English: stylohyoid