English

stylebook

From style + book.

A compound of style + book

Latin stilus ‘a stake’

Medieval Latin stylus

Middle English stile ‘writing tool’

English style

Proto-Germanic *bōks ‘letter’

Proto-West Germanic *bōk ‘inscribed billet, letter’

Old English bōc

Middle English bok ‘a document’

English book

Today it means

noun A manual containing an organization's standardized usage conventions for how to write.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / stylebook