STYLE Copy link • STYLE 1. s. Instrument used in writing, stilus. Manner, mode, genus: ratio. The ancient style of architecture, antiquum structurae genus: the old or new style of the calendar, veterum, recentiorum, spatia temporis finiendi ratio. Manner of speaking or writing, dicendi, or scribendi, genus: orationis, or sermonis, genus: oratio: sermo. A flowery style, fusum orationis genus: historical style, genus historicum: a book in Xenophon’s style, liber conscriptus Xenophontis genere sermonis (☞ stilus denotes the characteristic manner, or style, of a single writer; therefore stilus Latinus, Graecus, is not good Latin). 2. v. nominare: appellare: vocare: dicere. Vid: CALL.