icon
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin īcōn, from Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “likeness, image, portrait”). Eastern Orthodox Church sense is attested from 1833. Computing sense first recorded in 1982.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
icon (plural icons)
- An image, symbol, picture, portrait, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
- Synonyms: (sometimes) idol, (pejorative) graven image
- (religion, especially Eastern Christianity) A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.
- (by extension) A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:exemplar, Thesaurus:model
- That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.
- 1981 May 31, Robert Palmer, “Two Icons of Rock Music”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
- Only a handful of rock musicians have become genuine icons - larger-than-life symbolic figures whose personal triumphs and vicissitudes seem to mirror the ups and downs of rock as a whole, and sometimes of the society that nurtures it. Often, rock icons become the objects of personality cults that tend to overshadow their musical accomplishments.
- (graphical user interface) A small picture that represents something.
- Click the loudspeaker icon to configure audio settings.
- (Internet, informal) An image used to represent a user; an avatar or profile picture.
- Is it okay if I use your drawing as my icon?
- 1985 September 15, Erik Snadberg-Diment, “Number Crunching on the Macintosh”, in The New York Times[4], →ISSN:
- The program's most quintessentially Macintoshian feature, one as yet unique among spreadsheets, is its icon bar, which resides at the top of the screen just below the standard menu bar. It contains 21 icons, each of which allows the user to perform a specified function with but a few clicks of the mouse.
- (linguistics, semiotics) A word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
- aniconic
- aniconism
- iconantidyptic
- iconic
- iconical
- iconically
- iconicity
- iconicness
- iconics
- iconism
- iconistic
- iconistical
- iconistically
- icono-
- iconoclasm
- iconoclast
- iconoclastic
- iconodule
- iconodulic
- iconodulism
- iconodulist
- iconoduly
- iconograph
- iconographer
- iconographic
- iconographical
- iconographically
- iconographist
- iconography
- iconolater
- iconolatry
- iconological
- iconologist
- iconology
- iconomach
- iconomachal
- iconomachian
- iconomachical
- iconomachist
- iconomachy
- iconomania
- iconomatic
- iconomatically
- iconomaticism
- iconomatography
- iconometer
- iconometric
- iconometrical
- iconometrically
- iconometry
- iconophile
- iconophilia
- iconophilism
- iconophilist
- iconophily
- iconophobe
- iconophobia
- iconophobic
- iconoplast
- iconoscope
- iconostas
- iconostasis
- iconotropic
- iconotropy
- noniconic
- uniconic
Translations edit
image
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religious painting
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small picture, computer icon
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See also edit
Further reading edit
- icon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- icon (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “likeness, image, portrait”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈiː.koːn/, [ˈiːkoːn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈi.kon/, [ˈiːkon]
Noun edit
īcōn f (genitive īconis); third declension
- image, artistic representation of a thing
- (Medieval Latin) icon, a religious portrait
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | īcōn | īconēs |
Genitive | īconis | īconum |
Dative | īconī | īconibus |
Accusative | īconem | īconēs |
Ablative | īcone | īconibus |
Vocative | īcōn | īconēs |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- “icon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- icon in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- icon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- icon in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[5], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
icon n (plural iconuri)
Declension edit
Declension of icon
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) icon | iconul | (niște) iconuri | iconurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) icon | iconului | (unor) iconuri | iconurilor |
vocative | iconule | iconurilor |