NODE / 0528attestedAncient Greek

εἰκών

TRANSLITERATION eikṓn

representation, image, or likeness

DATE: Ancient Greek
SENSE: image likeness
FAMILY: Indo-European / Hellenic
CANONICAL KEY: node:10:eikon:attested:sense:image-likeness

Canonical Greek source stage for icon; deeper origin is explicitly uncertain.

ANCESTRAL EDGES

ROOT OF THIS ROOT

THE TRAIL ENDS HERE.

No securely reviewed ancestor extends beyond this node. 1 evidence path stops at this boundary.

INSPECT 1 CITED BOUNDARY CLAIM

GO DEEPERknowledge boundaryboundary

Beyond secure reconstruction · before uncertain Greek image-word prehistory · icon origin boundary

UNKNOWN

No secure ancestor is promoted beyond Greek eikōn.

SOUND: No older form is promoted beyond Greek eikōn because the proposed base is uncertain.
MEANING: The image-and-likeness family reaches a stated evidentiary horizon.
SCHOLAR: Merriam-Webster · Etymonline editors
CONFIDENCE: boundary — A proposed Lithuanian comparison is reported as doubtful.

Icon — Definition, Word History, and First Known UsesupportsWord History note: uncertain origin and doubtful Lithuanian comparison

Directly supports the boundary.

ORIGINAL ↗

Icon — Origin and historysupportsHeadword history: Greek eikenai of uncertain origin

Independently supports the boundary.

ORIGINAL ↗

OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 493 ↗

DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP

DESCENDANTborrowingestablished

Latin · Late Latin · image loan

īcōn

image or likeness

SOUND: Late Latin īcōn borrows and adapts Greek eikōn.
MEANING: The representation, image, and likeness field remains central.
SCHOLAR: Merriam-Webster · Etymonline editors
CONFIDENCE: established

Icon — Definition, Word History, and First Known UsesupportsWord History: Late Latin borrowed from Greek eikōn

Documents the Greek source.

ORIGINAL ↗

Icon — Origin and historysupportsHeadword history: Greek eikon

Independently documents the source.

ORIGINAL ↗

American Heritage Dictionary: iconsupportsEtymology: Greek eikōn

Independently supplies the Greek form.

ORIGINAL ↗

OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 492 ↗

TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE

EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE

This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.

UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES: 3
REVIEWED EDGES: 3
DEEPEST PATH: 3
MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED: 2

emoticon1 connected node icon2 connected nodes

HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE

STEP 01borrowingestablished

Ancient Greekεἰκών→Latin · Late Latinīcōnimage or likeness

SOUND: Late Latin īcōn borrows and adapts Greek eikōn.
MEANING: The representation, image, and likeness field remains central.

Merriam-Webster · Etymonline editors3 CITATIONSEDGE 492 ↗

Icon — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use · Word History: Late Latin borrowed from Greek eikōn ↗Icon — Origin and history · Headword history: Greek eikon ↗American Heritage Dictionary: icon · Etymology: Greek eikōn ↗

HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE

STEP 02borrowingestablished

Latinīcōn→Present-Day English · 1572–todayiconimage, likeness, representative symbol, or computer-display symbol

SOUND: English icon borrows Late Latin īcōn with English stress and vowel adaptation.
MEANING: Image and likeness extend into religious, symbolic, cultural, and computing senses.

Merriam-Webster · Etymonline editors3 CITATIONSEDGE 491 ↗

Icon — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use · Word History: Late Latin icon ↗Icon — Origin and history · Headword history: Late Latin icon ↗American Heritage Dictionary: icon · Word History: Latin icon ↗

HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE

STEP 03compound componentestablished

Present-Day Englishicon→Present-Day English · 1987–todayemoticonkeyboard characters depicting a facial expression, posture, emotion, or attitude

SOUND: English emoticon truncates and combines emotion with icon.
MEANING: The representative-image component supplies the visual-sign side of a keyboard expression.

Merriam-Webster · Unicode Consortium2 CITATIONSEDGE 490 ↗

FAQ — Emoji and Pictographs · How do emoji differ from emoticons? ↗Emoticon — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use · Word History: emotion + icon ↗

“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.

RECORDED EVIDENCE

ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE

NO RECORDED WITNESS ATTACHED.

The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.

EDITORIAL REUSE

WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE

03iconεἰκών · established