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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to resemble”), although no certain cognates exist outside of Greek. Cognate with ἔοικα (éoika, “to seem (likely that)”), εἴκελος (eíkelos, “like, similar”), εἰκάζω (eikázō, “to portray, liken”), and others.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eː.kɔ̌ːn/ → /iˈkon/ → /iˈkon/
Noun
εἰκών • (eikṓn) f (genitive εἰκόνος); third declension
- figure, image, likeness, portrait
- image in a mirror, reflection
- personal description
- similitude, semblance, phantom
- pattern, archetype
- (Byzantine, Christianity) icon
Inflection
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References
Further reading
- “εἰκών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “εἰκών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- εἰκών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- εἰκών in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1504 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- apparition idem, page 34.
- appearance idem, page 35.
- bust idem, page 106.
- effigy idem, page 263.
- emblem idem, page 267.
- figure idem, page 319.
- form idem, page 338.
- ghost idem, page 358.
- idea idem, page 413.
- image idem, page 416.
- impression idem, page 423.
- likeness idem, page 492.
- notion idem, page 562.
- painting idem, page 589.
- phantom idem, page 610.
- picture idem, page 611.
- portrait idem, page 627.
- reflection idem, page 684.
- representation idem, page 697.
- scene idem, page 738.
- semblance idem, page 751.
- shade idem, page 760.
- simile idem, page 776.
- similitude idem, page 776.
- sketch idem, page 780.
- spectre idem, page 800.
- spirit idem, page 802.
- symbol idem, page 850.
- type idem, page 904.
- vision idem, page 954.