Etymology

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Today it means: A person who supports the veneration of religious icons; an iconophile or iconodulist Full definition →

Ancient Greek εἰκονόδουλος
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  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromεἰκονόδουλος
  2. English todayiconodule

Borrowed from Ancient Greek εἰκονόδουλος (eikonódoulos), a compound of εἰκών (eikṓn, “likeness, image, portrait”) + δοῦλος (doûlos, “slave”).

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