Symbol: nm (word coming from the Christian Latin symbolum “symbol of faith”, classic symbolus “sign of recognition”, from the Greek sumbolon “object cut in two constituting a sign of recognition when the wearers could assemble (sumballein) the two pieces”
The word “symbol” has many meanings:
I) What represents something else (sign) by virtue of an analogical correspondence.
1. Ordinary meaning: Object or natural fact of a pictorial character which evokes, by its shape or...
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