stipple

• 点刻；点彩
• n.（絵画の）点描画；点描画
• 点で彫る；点で描く

オランダ語のstippelen「点で描く」、stippen「刺す」、stippen「点」で繰り返され、stip「点」から、PIE*steip、PIE*stei「刺す」、stick「刺す」の拡大形、語源的にはstipple「刺す」、sting「刺激」と同じ。

stipple (v.)

"paint with dots," 1670s, from Dutch stippelen "to make points," frequentative of stippen "to prick, speckle," from stip "a point," perhaps ultimately from PIE root *st(e)ig- "pointed" (see stick (v.)), or from *steip- "to stick, compress." Related: Stippled; stippling.