·noun An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.
II. Icon ·add. ·noun A sacred picture representing the Virgin Mary, Christ, a saint, or a martyr, and having the same function as an image of such a person in the Latin Church.
īcon, ŏnis, f., = εἰκών, an image , figure : fictae ceră icones, Plin. 8, 54, 80, § 215. ...
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