icône

icon (representation as an object of religious devotion); icon (small picture that represents something)

“les saintes icônes” — the holy icons

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.”).

icon (exemplar person or thing)

“Il est un icône du ski.” — He's a skiing icon.

Related: iconique, iconogène, iconographe, iconolâtrie, iconologie, iconomètre, iconoscope, iconostase

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.”).