icon

• n.アイコン; 偶像; 肖像画、写真; 図像学

ラテン語のicon、icon、idolから。最初はイエスのような聖人のイコンを描くのに使われ、その延長でicon、imageとなった。

icon

icon: [16] The etymological idea underlying icon is of ‘similarity’. It comes via Latin īcōn from Greek eikón, which was derived from a prehistoric base meaning ‘be like’. From ‘likeness, similarity’, eikón progressed semantically via ‘image’ to ‘portrait, picture’. That was the general sense in which English acquired the word (‘The Icon, or forme of the same birde, I have caused thus to bee figured’, John Bossewell, Workes of Armorie 1572), and it was not until the early 19th century that the particular application to a ‘sacred portrait in the Eastern Orthodox church’ entered the language.

icon (n.)

also ikon, 1570s, "image, figure, representation," from Late Latin icon, from Greek eikon "likeness, image, portrait," related to eikenai "be like, look like," of unknown origin. Eastern Church sense is attested from 1833. Computing sense first recorded 1982.

1. Double click on the icon to open the file.

アイコンをダブルクリックしてファイルを開きます。

2.Click the square icon again to minimize the window.

もう一度正方形アイコンをクリックして、ウィンドウを最小化します。

3.Only Marilyn has proved as enduring a fashion icon .

マリリンだけが常青のファッションアイドルです。

4.Click on the printer icon with the mouse.

マウスでプリンタアイコンをクリックします。

5.They found an icon in the monastery.

修道院で聖像を発見した。