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2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol, or a small screen symbol
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eikon
Greek · ancient
"an image, likeness"
an image or likeness, especially a religious image
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English · 1500s
"a symbolic image or revered figure"
settled first for religious images, later any symbolic figure
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