iconography=الايقونية

iconography=الايقونية

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY

iconography (n.)

1620s, from M.L. iconographia, from Gk. eikonographia "sketch, description," from eikon (see icon) + -graphia (see -graphy). Related: Iconographic.

icon (n.)

also ikon, 1570s, "image, figure, representation," from L.L. icon, from Gk. eikon "likeness, image, portrait," related to eikenai "be like, look like," of unknown origin. Eastern Church sense is attested from 1833. Computing sense first recorded 1982.

-graphy

word-forming element meaning "process of writing or recording" or "a writing, recording, or description," from French or Ger. -graphie, from Gk. -graphia "description of," from graphein "write, express by written characters," earlier "to draw, represent by lines drawn," originally "to scrape, scratch" (on clay tablets with a stylus), from PIE root *gerbh- "to scratch, carve" (see carve). In modern use, especially in forming names of descriptive sciences.