The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromεἰκών“icon, image, likeness”
- English todayiconomatic
A clipping of earlier icononomatic, from a modern combination of Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “icon, image, likeness”) + ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic: forming adjectives”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekεἰκών all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.