different between stye vs scye

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sta?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

First recorded in the 17th century; probably a back-formation from styany (first recorded in the 15th century), which in turn comes from styan plus eye, the former from the Old English st??end (“rising, riser; stye”), from the verb st?gan (“climb, ascend”).

Noun

stye (plural styes)

1. (medicine) A bacterial infection in the eyelash or eyelid.

Synonyms

• hordeolum, powk (dialect)

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

stye (plural styes)

1. Archaic form of sty. (shelter for pigs)

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:stye.

Anagrams

• Tyes, etys, stey, teys, tyes, yest, yet's, yets

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English st??.

Noun

stye

1. Alternative form of sty (“path”)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse stigi.

Noun

stye

1. Alternative form of stie (“ladder”)

English

Etymology

Unknown

Perhaps Old French sier (“to cut”), from Latin secare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophones: sigh, psi, xi, sai Si

Noun

scye (plural scyes)

1. An armhole (or, occasionally, a leghole) in tailoring and dressmaking.
   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     on the seat lay folded a pair of blue cotton pants creased at the groin, their short fly zippered open, and over them a white underbrief, the sinus of its pouch humped between elliptical scyes.

Anagrams

• Sec'y, YECs, sec'y, syce