The story
- New Latin · borrowed fromstylohȳoīdēs
- English todaystylohyoid
Borrowed from New Latin stylohȳoīdēs, from stylus (“a stake or pale”) + -o- + hȳoīdēs (“U-shaped”); equivalent to stylo- + hyoid. Doublet of stylohyoideus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.