Etymology

stylise

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English style ← Middle English stile ← Old French estile
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The story

  1. Medieval Latinstylus
  2. Proto-Indo-European*(s)teyg-
  3. Proto-Italic*stiglos?
  4. Latinstilu
  5. Old Frenchestile
  6. Middle Englishstile
  7. Englishstyle
  8. English todaystylise

From style + -ise.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.