icône

See also: icone and ícone

French

Alternative forms

• icone

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -on

Noun

icône f (plural icônes)

1. icon (image)
2. icon (respected person)

Derived terms

• iconique
• iconogène
• iconographe
• iconolâtrie
• iconologie
• iconomètre
• iconoscope
• iconostase

 

Further reading

• “icône”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin īcon, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “likeness, image, portrait”).

Noun

icône f (plural icônes)

1. (Jersey, religion, art, computing) icon