stylites

noun
/ˈstʌɪlʌɪts/UK/ˈstaɪlaɪts/US/staɪˈlaɪtiːz/UK/staɪˈlaɪtiz/US

Etymology

Representing the Latin Stȳlītēs and/or the Ancient Greek Στῡλῑ́της (Stūlī́tēs) in saints’ epithets borrowed or adapted in toto from those languages.

Definitions

  1. plural of stylite

  2. an epithet of several saints revered as stylites

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for stylites. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA