εἰκών
See also: εἴκων
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- εἰκώ (eikṓ) – Ionic
Etymology
Perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *weyk-, although no certain cognates exist outside of Greek. Cognate with ἔοικα (éoika), εἴκελος (eíkelos), εἰκάζω (eikázō) and others.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /eː.kɔ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /iˈkon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /iˈkon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /iˈkon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /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
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ εἰκών; τῆς εἰκόνος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ εἰκών hē eikṓn | τὼ εἰκόνε tṑ eikóne | αἱ εἰκόνες hai eikónes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς εἰκόνος tês eikónos | τοῖν εἰκόνοιν toîn eikónoin | τῶν εἰκόνων tôn eikónōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ εἰκόνῐ têi eikóni | τοῖν εἰκόνοιν toîn eikónoin | ταῖς εἰκόσῐ / εἰκόσῐν taîs eikósi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν εἰκόνᾰ tḕn eikóna | τὼ εἰκόνε tṑ eikóne | τᾱ̀ς εἰκόνᾰς tā̀s eikónas | ||||||||||
Vocative | εἰκών eikṓn | εἰκόνε eikóne | εἰκόνες eikónes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- εἰκονογράφος (eikonográphos)
- εἰκονίζω (eikonízō)
Related terms
- εἰκάζω (eikázō)
- εἰκώς (eikṓs)
- ἴσκω (ískō)
Descendants
- Arabic: أَيْقُونَة (ʾayqūna)
- Danish: ikon
- Greek: εικόνα (eikóna)
- Italian: icona
- Sicilian: cuna
- Latin: īcōn
- English: icon
- French: icône
- Hungarian: ikon
- Spanish: icono
- Portuguese: ícone
- Polish: ikona
- Russian: икона (ikona)
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 (2006–2023)
- 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.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN