different between icon vs symbols
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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symbols
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?mb?lz/
- Hyphenation: sym?bols
- Homophone: cymbals
Noun
symbols
- plural of symbol
Verb
symbols
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of symbol
Danish
Noun
symbols n
- indefinite genitive singular of symbol
Swedish
Noun
symbols
- indefinite genitive singular of symbol
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