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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-der.? Proto-Germanic *staupaz Proto-West Germanic *staup Old English stēap Middle English steep English steep Middle English -ly English -ly English steeply From steep + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a steep manner.
   • The station's style included two curved passenger walkways sweeping pierside and a steeply pitched verandah roof running along its inner side. 2023 March 22, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Grand buildings on the list... and lost: Greenock Princes Pier”, in RAIL, number 979, page 52:
   • The descent continues, still more steeply to Dundee (Tay Bridge), and approaching from the bridge itself this sharp descent gives the curious appearance that the station is below the level of the firth. 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 7:
   • The two characteristic Italian villages which slumber on its banks, and the equally Italian palazzo whose terraced gardens descend steeply to the lake, hardly break the stillness and even the solitariness of the scene. 1894, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough:
   • We sit at a cafe in the crisp morning air, looking down the gradually descending town square towards the gothically vertiginous fifteenth-century St Egidius church. The platz is ringed by steeply gabled pastel burghers' houses and in the centre sits the medieval town hall. 2003 November 2, Tom Templeton, “Worth more than 15 minutes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2021:

Forms

Translations (6)

eo krute (in a steep manner) · hu meredeken (in a steep manner) · uk кру́то (in a steep manner) · cs prudce (in a steep manner) · ru кру́то (in a steep manner) · cs příkře (in a steep manner)