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sculpture
English
Etymology
From Middle English sculpture, from Old French sculpture, from Latin sculpt?ra (“sculpture”), from sculp? (“to cut out, to carve in stone”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?sk?lpt???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sk?lptj(?)?/, /?sk?lpt???/
- Hyphenation: sculp?ture
Noun
sculpture (usually uncountable, plural sculptures)
- (countable) A three dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).
- There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen / The mad affection of the Cretan queen.
- Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
- (zoology) The three-dimensional ornamentation on the outer surface of a shell.
Translations
Verb
sculpture (third-person singular simple present sculptures, present participle sculpturing, simple past and past participle sculptured)
- To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.
- To represent something in sculpture.
- To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.
Translations
Related terms
- sculpt
- sculptor
- sculptureless
- sculpturelike
Further reading
- sculpture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sculpture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- sculpture at OneLook Dictionary Search
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skyl.ty?/ (p is not pronounced)
- Homophone: sculptures
Noun
sculpture f (plural sculptures)
- sculpture
Further reading
- “sculpture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- sculpteur
Latin
Participle
sculpt?re
- vocative masculine singular of sculpt?rus
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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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