symbole

See also: Symbole and sŷmbole

English

Noun

symbole (plural symboles)

1. Obsolete form of symbol.

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin symbolum, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek σύμβολον (súmbolon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.bɔl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔl

Noun

symbole m (plural symboles)

1. symbol (all meanings)

Derived terms

• symbolique
  • symboliquement
• symbolisme
• symbologie

Descendants

• → Dutch: symbool
• → English: symbol
• → Persian: سمبل (sambol)
• → Polish: symbol
• → Scots: seembol
• → Turkish: sembol

Further reading

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

Latin

Noun

symbole

1. vocative singular of symbolus

Middle French

Alternative forms

• simbole (14th century)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin symbolum.

Noun

symbole m (plural symboles)

1. symbol (image, etc. representing something)

References

• Etymology and history of “symbole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “symbole”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.

Norman

Etymology

From Latin symbolus, symbolum (“a sign, mark, token, symbol, in Late Latin also a creed”), from Ancient Greek σύμβολον (súmbolon, “a sign by which one infers something; a mark, token, badge, ticket, tally, check, a signal, watchword, outward sign”).

Noun

symbole m (plural symboles)

1. (Jersey) creed