icône

• icone

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.”).

• IPA^(key): /i.kon/

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• Rhymes: -on

icône f (plural icônes)

1. (chiefly Christianity) icon (representation as an object of religious devotion)

   les saintes icônes ― the holy icons

2. (graphical user interface) icon (small picture that represents something)

   Synonym: pictogramme

In the GUI sense, the word is sometimes treated as masculine.

icône m or f by sense (plural icônes)

1. (figurative) icon (exemplar person or thing)

   Synonym: archétype

   Il est un icône du ski. ― He's a skiing icon.

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

From Latin īcon, from Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “likeness, image, portrait”).

icône f (plural icônes)

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