Style
Middle English (denoting a stylus, also a literary composition, an official title, or a characteristic manner of literary expression): from Old French stile, from Latin stilus . The verb dates (first in style (sense 2 of the verb)) from the early 16th century.
wiktionary
The noun is derived from Middle English stile, stel, stele, stiel, stiele, stil, still, stille, styele, style, styill, styll, styyl(“writing tool, stylus; piece of written work; characteristic mode of expression, particularly one regarded as high quality; demeanour, manner, way of life; person's designation or title; stem of a plant; period of time”), [1] from Old French style, estile, stil, stile (modern French style), or from Medieval Latin stylus, both from Latin stilus(“pointed instrument, pale, spike, stake; writing tool, stylus; act of setting down in writing, composition; characteristic mode of expression, style; stem of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg-(“to be sharp; to pierce, prick, puncture, stab; to goad”). [2] [3] Doublet of stylus.
The English word is cognate with Catalan estil(“engraving tool, stylus; gnomon; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace”), German Stiel(“handle; stalk”), Italian stilo(“needle, stylus; fountain pen; beam; gnomon; part of pistil, style”), Occitan estil, Portuguese estilo(“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style”), Spanish estilo(“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace; part of pistil, style”). [2]
The verb is derived from the noun. [4]
etymonline
style (n.)
early 14c., stile, "writing instrument, pen, stylus; piece of written discourse, a narrative, treatise;" also "characteristic rhetorical mode of an author, manner or mode of expression," and "way of life, manner, behavior, conduct," from Old French stile, estile "style, fashion, manner; a stake, pale," from Latin stilus "stake, instrument for writing, manner of writing, mode of expression," perhaps from the same source as stick (v.)). Spelling modified incorrectly by influence of Greek stylos "pillar," which probably is not directly related. As distinguished from substance, 1570s. Meaning "mode of dress" is from 1814.
style (v.)
c. 1500, "address with a title;" 1560s, "to give a name to," from style (n.). Meaning "to arrange in (fashionable) style" (especially of hair) is attested from 1934. Slang sense of "act or play in a showy way" is by 1974, African-American vernacular. Related: Styled; styling.
