Other forms: styli, styluses
A stylus is a pointed instrument for writing or engraving. A stylus and tablet, draw with a stylus, the record stylus.
The Romans wrote on wax with one, and the modern tablet stylus is the same idea returned. On a record player the stylus is the needle, and the word style comes from the same Latin source.
1nounstylusA pointed instrument for writing or engraving.
“Draw on the tablet screen with the stylus instead of your finger.”
stylus is an instrument.
Latin stylus means a stake or pointed instrument; style is a doublet.
Latin
stylus — a stake or pale
English, today
stylus
Latin stylus (“a stake or pale”). Probably not directly related to Ancient Greek στῦλος (“a pillar”). a doublet of style.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA