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icon
English
Alternative forms
- eikon, ikon (only in sense of religious image)
Etymology
From Latin ?c?n, from Ancient Greek ????? (eik?n, “likeness, image, portrait”). Eastern Orthodox Church sense is attested from 1833. Computing sense first recorded in 1982.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?a?.k?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /?a?.k??n/
Noun
icon (plural icons)
- An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
- Synonyms: 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
- (graphical user interface) A small picture that represents something.
- Click the loudspeaker icon to configure audio settings.
- (linguistics) A word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons.
- Coordinate terms: symbol, index.
Derived terms
- aniconic, aniconism
- iconism
Related terms
- iconic
- iconoclasm, iconoclast, iconoclastic
- iconify
- iconography
- iconstasis
Translations
Further reading
- icon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- icon (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- COIN, Coin, Nico, cion, coin, coni
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (eik?n, “likeness, image, portrait”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?i?.ko?n/, [?i?ko?n]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?i.kon/, [?i?k?n]
Noun
?c?n f (genitive ?conis); third declension
- an image
- (later Latin): icon (religious painting)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Related terms
- ?conicus
- ?conismus
References
- 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, 1883–1887)
- icon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- icon in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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font
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /f?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
- (US) IPA(key): /f?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Etymology 1
From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin f?ns, fontis (“fountain”).
Noun
font (plural fonts)
- (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
- Synonym: stoup
- Hyponym: baptismal font
- A receptacle for oil in a lamp.
- (figuratively) Spring, source, fountain.
Translations
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).
Alternative forms
- fount (UK)
Noun
font (plural fonts)
- (typography) A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
- In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
- In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
- In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
- (computing) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
Derived terms
Translations
Descendants
- Thai: ????? (f??n)
Verb
font (third-person singular simple present fonts, present participle fonting, simple past and past participle fonted)
- (television, colloquial, transitive) To overlay (text) on the picture.
- 1981, William Safire, On language (page 78)
- When figures or quotes are thought helpful to understanding a spot, they're "fonted" over the cover picture.
- 1987, The Foundation Center, Promoting issues & ideas: a guide to public relations for nonprofit organizations (page 97)
- […] character generator instead of an easel card to create letters on camera or telephone numbers that can run across the TV screen. The process is called fonting.
- 1981, William Safire, On language (page 78)
References
- “font” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Bringhurst, Robert (2002). The Elements of Typographic Style, version 2.5, pp 291–2. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks. ?ISBN.
Etymology 3
Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).
Noun
font (plural fonts)
- (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
- 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V
- A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in
The arts of which these lands were once the font
- A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in
- 1910 — Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, part II
- As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.
- 1915 — Woodrow Wilson, Third State of the Union Address
- I am interested to fix your attention on this prospect now because unless you take it within your view and permit the full significance of it to command your thought I cannot find the right light in which to set forth the particular matter that lies at the very font of my whole thought as I address you to-day.
- 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V
Translations
Further reading
- font on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- holy water font on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- baptismal font on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan font, from Latin fons, fontem, of Proto-Indo-European origin.
Noun
font m (plural fonts)
- fountain
- source (of water)
- source (origin)
- (journalism) source
Synonyms
(fountain): fontana
Derived terms
- codi font
- codi font obert
Related terms
- fontaner
- fontaneria
- fontinyol
Further reading
- “font” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??/
- Rhymes: -??
Verb
font
- third-person plural present indicative of faire
Friulian
Alternative forms
- fonz
Etymology
From Latin fundus.
Noun
font m (plural fonts)
- bottom
- background
- landed property, farm
- fund
Related terms
- profont
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?font]
- Hyphenation: font
- Rhymes: -ont
Etymology 1
From German Pfund, from Latin pondo.
Noun
font (plural fontok)
- pound (weight)
- pound (currency unit)
- Synonym: font sterling
Declension
Derived terms
- fontol
- fontos
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English font, from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of fondre (“to melt”), from Latin fund? (“I melt”).
Noun
font (plural fontok)
- (typography) digital font (set of glyphs of unified design contained in a computer file)
Declension
Etymology 3
From the verb fon +? -t.
Verb
font
- third-person singular indicative past indefinite of fon
Participle
font
- past participle of fon
- Synonym: (in certain senses) fonott
Declension
References
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin fons, via Old Norse fontr (sense 1), and French fonte, via English font (sense 2)
Noun
font m (definite singular fonten, indefinite plural fonter, definite plural fontene)
- a baptismal font
- (typography) font, or fount (UK)
References
- “font” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin fons, via Old Norse fontr (sense 1), and French fonte, via English font (sense 2)
Noun
font m (definite singular fonten, indefinite plural fontar, definite plural fontane)
- a baptismal font
- (typography) font, or fount (UK)
References
- “font” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
From English font, from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?nt/
Noun
font m inan
- (computing) font (computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs)
Declension
Further reading
- font in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- font in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
Noun
font c
- (typography) a font
Usage notes
- The synonym teckensnitt is considered more correct.
Declension
Synonyms
- teckensnitt
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