sty
English
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[edit ]Etymology 1
[edit ]From Middle English sty , from Old English stī , stiġ ("sty, pen, a wooden enclosure; hall", chiefly in compounds).
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").
Noun
[edit ]sty (plural sties )
- A pen or enclosure for swine.
- (figurative ) A messy, dirty or debauched place.
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [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:
- To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.
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[edit ]- Bulgarian: кочина (bg) (kočina)
- Czech: chlívek m
- Danish: sti (da) c, svinesti c
- Dutch: varkensstal (nl) m
- Faroese: stíggjur m
- Finnish: sikolätti (fi)
- French: porcherie (fr) f
- Hungarian: disznóól (hu)
- Irish: cró muc m, cró muice m
- Italian: porcile (it) m
- Japanese: 豚舎 (ja) (とんしゃ, tonsha), 豚小屋 (ja) (ぶたごや, butagoya)
- Latin: hara f
- Latvian: cūkkūts f, cūku kūts f
- Macedonian: ко́чина f (kóčina), сви́њарник m (svínjarnik)
- Maori: rāihe , pākoro , pākorokoro
- Ottoman Turkish: طوڭوزلق (doñuzluk)
- Polish: chlew (pl) m
- Portuguese: chiqueiro (pt) m, pocilga (pt) f
- Romanian: cocină (ro) f
- Russian: хлев (ru) m (xlev), свина́рник (ru) m (svinárnik)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: krmník m
- Spanish: pocilga (es) f
- Swedish: stia (sv) , svinstia (sv)
- Bulgarian: кочина (bg) (kočina)
- Czech: chlív (cs) m
- Danish: svinesti c
- Dutch: varkensstal (nl) m
- Finnish: läävä (fi) , sikolätti (fi)
- French: porcherie (fr) f
- Hungarian: disznóól (hu)
- Japanese: 豚小屋 (ja) (ぶたごや, butagoya)
- Latvian: cūkkūts f, cūku kūts f
- Macedonian: ко́чина f (kóčina), сви́њарник m (svínjarnik)
- Polish: chlew (pl) m
- Portuguese: chiqueiro (pt) m
- Russian: свина́рник (ru) m (svinárnik)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Swedish: stia (sv) , svinstia (sv)
Verb
[edit ]sty (third-person singular simple present sties , present participle stying , simple past and past participle stied )
- (transitive ) To place in, or as if in, a sty.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [...] (First Folio), London: [...] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- and here you sty me
In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me
The rest o' the island
- (transitive ) To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.
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[edit ]Etymology 2
[edit ]From Middle English stien , stiȝen , stighen , from Old English stīgan ("to go; ascend, mount"), from Proto-West Germanic *stīgan , from Proto-Germanic *stīganą , from Proto-Indo-European *steygh- .
Cognate with Dutch stijgen , German steigen , Danish stige , Norwegian Bokmål stige , Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish stiga , Old Norse stíga .
Verb
[edit ]sty (third-person singular simple present sties , present participle stying , simple past and past participle stied )
- (obsolete ) To ascend, rise up, climb. [9th–17th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, "Book I, Canto IX", in The Faerie Queene. [...] , London: [...] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The beast impatient of his smarting wound, / And of so fierce and forcible despight, / Thought with his wings to stye aboue the ground [...].
- 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], "Muiopotmos, or The Fate of the Butterflie", in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. [...] , London: [...] William Ponsonbie, [...], →OCLC:
- From this lower tract he dared to stie up to the clowdes.
- 1621, Richard Montague, Diatribae upon the first part of the late History of Tithes:
- Led along, as some Creatures are, by the Noses, and voluntarily hood-winked; or like seeled Doves, sty up, you know not whither, nor how far.
- 1652, Edward Benlowes, Theophila, or Love's Sacrifice:
- That she might sty to the seat of Beatifick Mirth.
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[edit ]sty (plural sties )
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[edit ]From Middle English styanye , mistaken as "sty on eye" yet composed of Old English stīġend ("sty", literally "riser"), agent noun from stīgan ("to rise") + Middle English yë ("eye").
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[edit ]sty (plural sties )
- (pathology ) An inflammation of the eyelid.
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[edit ]Middle English
[edit ]Etymology 1
[edit ]Inherited from Old English stiġ , stī , from Proto-West Germanic *stij , from Proto-Germanic *stiją , related to *stīganą ("to climb, ascend").
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[edit ]sty (plural styes )
Descendants
[edit ]- English: sty
References
[edit ]- "stī, n.", in MED Online , Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018年06月08日.
Etymology 2
[edit ]Inherited from Old English stīġ , from Proto-West Germanic *stīgu , from Proto-Germanic *stīgō , related to Etymology 1 above.
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[edit ]Noun
[edit ]- A path, track or street.
- (figurative ) One's chosen pathway or choices in life.
- (figurative , rare ) A short narrative.
References
[edit ]- "stī(e, n.(1).", in MED Online , Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018年06月08日.
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