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εἰκόνα (eikona)

εἰκόνα is an Ancient Greek form of εἰκών, meaning “image, likeness”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 457 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.25: … ης ὁ Πέρσης ἀνδριάντα Πλάτωνος ἀνέθετο εἰς τὴν Ἀκαδήμειαν καὶ ἐπέγραψε· Μιθραδάτης Ὀροντοβάτου Πέρσης Μούσαις εἰκόνα ἀνέθηκε Πλάτωνος, ἣν Σιλανίων ἐποίησε.

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 2.8.38: … ες ἐτόλμησαν· ὃ καὶ αὐτὸ ἀδύνατον, μαθόντας τὸ διαφέρον τὸ ἐν πληρώματι Ἀνθρώπῳ ἐπιβουλεύειν, ἔτι καὶ τὸ κατ’ ἐἰκόνα, ἐν ᾧ καὶ τὸ ἀρχέτυπον καὶ τὸ σὺν τῇ γνώσει τῇ λοιπῇ ἄφθαρτον παρειλήφεσαν.

All forms of εἰκών (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.