Dictionary

aniconic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /anʌɪˈkɒnɪk/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-) Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-)der. English an- English iconic English aniconic From an- + iconic.

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to representations without human or animal form.
   • With the notable exceptions of the painted ceilings in the Hall of the Kings and the sculpted lions that guard the fountain in the courtyard, the Alhambra is a strikingly aniconic building. 2004, Robert Irwin, The Alhambra, Profile Books, published 2005, page 127:
   • While Father Kronos and the world he ruled, confident that the new anthropomorphism was destroyed, clung to the stone child, the aniconic pillar worship that expressed itself in the Bethels of the Semites and the Pillar Rooms at Knossos. 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 25:
   • aniconic worship

Forms

Relateds

uniconic · aniconism · iconoclastic

Translations (3)

de anikonisch (not having or involving icons) · pt anicónico (not having or involving icons) · pt anicônico (not having or involving icons)