sti - What does it mean?
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'sti' is a common misspelling of 'sty'
The correct spelling of 'sty' ends with the letter 'y'.
This incorrect spelling 'sti' ends with the letter 'i'.
'sti' Spelling Rule
In the early Modern English period, words ending in 'i' were changed to end in 'y'. For example, mani, veri, beauti and marri were changed to many, very, beauty and marry. This explains why some words containing a y, feature an i in their plural or past tense form. For example, try, tried; baby, babies; marry, marries.
Definition of 'sty' not 'sti'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .
Noun
( sties)
A pen or enclosure for swine.
(figurative) A messy, dirty or debauched place.
* Milton
- To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty .
Synonyms
* (enclosure for swine) pigpen, pigsty
* (messy or dirty place) hovel, pigsty
Verb
( en-verb)
To place in, or as if in, a sty.
- (Shakespeare)
To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), .
Alternative forms
* stee, stie, stigh
Verb
(label) To ascend, rise up, climb.
* 1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Isaiah LIII:
- And he schal stie as a ?erde bifor him, and as a roote fro þirsti lond.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
- The beast impatient of his smarting wound, / And of so fierce and forcible despight, / Thought with his wings to stye aboue the ground [...].
Derived terms
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Noun
(sties)
A ladder.
Etymology 3
Probably a .
Alternative forms
* stye
Noun
(sties)
(label) An inflammation of the eyelid.
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