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語源

Likely a nominalization of 中期英語 stencellen (“to garnish with bright hues”), borrowed from Middle French estinceller (“to glisten”), from Old French estenceler (“to spark”), from Old French estencele (“spark”), from Vulgar Latin *stincilla, from metathesis of Latin scintilla (“spark”).

The verb is from the noun.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈstɛnsɪl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈstɛnsəl/
• 韻: -ɛnsəl

名詞

stencil (plural stencils)

1. A thin sheet, either perforated or using some other technique, with which a pattern may be produced upon a surface; a utensil that contains a perforated sheet.
   • 2015, Margaret Peot, Stencil Craft: Techniques for Fashion, Art and Home‎, Penguin, →ISBN:

     You do not necessarily need to have a stencil brush to paint over a stencil.

2. A pattern produced using such a utensil.
   • 2016 July 11, Calla Wahlquist, “Banksy stencils destroyed by construction workers in Melbourne”, in The Guardian‎:

     In 2013 a damaged stencil of a rat and an image of a girl hugging a bomb were painted over on the walls of a Fitzroy church by the building owner’s father-in-law, who tried to help out by painting the building while house sitting. He did not know the significance of the stencils.

3. A two-ply master sheet for use with a mimeograph.

派生語

• stencil art
• stencil buffer
• stencil duplicator
• stencil work

参考

• pochoir

動詞

stencil (third-person singular simple present stencils, present participle (US) stenciling or (UK) stencilling, simple past and past participle (US) stenciled or (UK) stencilled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To print with a stencil.
   • 2015, William Addison Dwiggins, edited by Dorothy Abbe, Stencilled Ornament and Illustration, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 53:

     Stencilled letters were used for words and phrases, as well as for captions for some of his stencil “prints,” print being used in the sense of a multicolor woodcut.

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “stencil”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading

• Category:Stencils on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

アナグラム

• clients, lectins, scilent