Ancient Greek

Noun

εἰκών • ‎(eikṓn) f ‎(genitive εἰκόνος); third declension

1. figure, image, likeness, portrait
2. image in a mirror, reflection
3. personal description
4. similitude, semblance, phantom
5. pattern, archetype

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: εικόνα ‎(eikóna)
• Latin: īcōn
  • English: icon
  • French: icône
• Russian: икона ‎(ikona)
• Spanish: icono

References

• 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 (© 2006–2016)
• “G1504”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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 561.
  • 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