köken: Attested from the 15th century, in the 14th in the compound götzenträger for "icon". In the 15th and 16th centuries a term for "cast image", and more generally for "image, likeness". In the 15th century used in the sense of "fool, stupid person", presumably influenced by Götz, a short form of the given name Gottfried. Grimm cites a folk song collected by Uhland (1881), based on a manuscript dated…
icon (representation as an object of religious devotion) · icon (small picture that represents something)
çekim: çoğul icônes
köken: Borrowed from Russian икона (ikona, “(Eastern Orthodox) religious image”) [1859]; in the GUI sense from English icon, ultimately from Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “figure, image, etc.”).
icon (a representation, especially as an object of religious devotion) · icon (a type of religious paining) · icon (a small picture that represents something)
çekim: çoğul iconos
köken: Borrowed from French icône, from Russian ико́на (ikóna), from Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn), εἰκόνος (eikónos, “image, likeness”).
an icon (religious image of a saint) · an icon (small picture)
çekim: çoğul iconen
köken: Borrowed from Latin īcōn, from Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “likeness, image, portrait”). Eastern Orthodox Church sense is attested from 1833. Computing sense first recorded in 1982.
köken: Borrowed from English idol. Attested in the late 1880s, in the novel Ukigumo, as a poetic alternative to 本尊 (“object of worship”), but popularized with its current meaning after the 1964 Japanese release of the French film Cherchez l'idole (Find the Idol).
köken: Borrowed from English idol, from Latin idolum, from Ancient Greek εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “image, idol”), from εἶδος (eîdos, “form”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéydos (“seeing, image”), from *weyd- (“to see”).
example, paragon, role model, guiding light (person who has a profound influence on others and is a source of inspiration and admiration) · that which something is based on, that which something is a derivative or imitation of; model, archetype, source, inspiration
çekim: çoğul esikuvat · tamlayan esikuvan
köken: esi- (“fore-”) + kuva (“picture”), calque of Swedish förebild (compare also German Vorbild).
köken: From Ancient Greek είδωλον (eídōlon), partially through the intermediate of Old Church Slavonic идолъ (idolŭ). Compare Aromanian idul, Serbo-Croatian idol.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese ydolo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin īdōlum, from Ancient Greek εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “image, idol”), from εἶδος (eîdos, “form”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”).