icon

• n. 图标；偶像；肖像，画像；圣像

来自拉丁语icon,圣像，神像。最早用于描绘耶稣等圣人的神像，引申词义偶像，图像。

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.

来自柯林斯例句

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

再次点击正方形图标，把窗口最小化。

来自柯林斯例句

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

只有玛丽莲是常青的时尚偶像。

来自柯林斯例句

4. Click on the printer icon with the mouse.

用鼠标点击打印机图标。

来自《权威词典》

5. They found an icon in the monastery.

他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像.

来自《简明英汉词典》