different between symbol vs rune

English

Etymology

From French symbole, from Latin symbolus, symbolum (“a sign, mark, token, symbol, in Late Latin also a creed”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (súmbolon, “a sign by which one infers something; a mark, token, badge, ticket, tally, check, a signal, watchword, outward sign”), from ???????? (sumbáll?, “I throw together, dash together, compare, correspond, tally, come to a conclusion”), from ??? (sún, “with, together”) + ????? (báll?, “I throw, put”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?mb?l/
• Rhymes: -?mb?l
• Hyphenation: sym?bol
• Homophone: cymbal

Noun

symbol (plural symbols)

1. A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.

2. A thing considered the embodiment of a concept or object.

3. (linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index.
4. A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith.

5. (crystallography) The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes.
6. (obsolete) That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.
   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     They do their work in the days of peace […] and come to pay their symbol in a war or in a plague.

7. (obsolete) Share; allotment.
   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     The persons who are to be judged […] shall all appear to receive their symbol.

8. (programming) An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code.
9. (telecommunications) A signalling event on a communications channel; a signal that cannot be further divided into meaningful information.

Derived terms

• status symbol
• typographical symbol

Related terms

• symbolic
• symbolize
• symbolism

Translations

Verb

symbol (third-person singular simple present symbols, present participle symboling or symbolling, simple past and past participle symboled or symbolled)

1. To symbolize.

Translations

See also

• punctuation

Further reading

• symbol in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• symbol in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Czech

Noun

symbol m

1. symbol

Declension

Related terms

• symbolický
• symbolismus

Further reading

• symbol in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• symbol in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmbolon, “a sign by which one infers something; a mark, token, badge, ticket, tally, check, a signal, watchword, outward sign”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /symbo?l/, [sym?b?o??l]
• Rhymes: -o?l

Noun

symbol n (singular definite symbolet, plural indefinite symboler)

1. symbol

Inflection

Derived terms

• statussymbol

Related terms

• symbolik
• symbolisere
• symbolisme
• symbolist
• symbolsk

Further reading

• symbol on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmbolon)

Noun

symbol n (definite singular symbolet, indefinite plural symbol or symboler, definite plural symbola or symbolene)

1. a symbol

Derived terms

• statussymbol
• symbolisme

Related terms

• symbolisere
• symbolsk

References

• “symbol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmbolon)

Noun

symbol n (definite singular symbolet, indefinite plural symbol, definite plural symbola)

1. a symbol

Derived terms

• statussymbol
• symbolisme

Related terms

• symbolsk

References

• “symbol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From French symbole, from Latin symbolum, from Ancient Greek ????????? (súmbolon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m.b?l/

Noun

symbol m inan

1. symbol

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) symbolika, symbolizm
• (adjective) symboliczny
• (verb) symbolizowa?

Further reading

• symbol in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• symbol in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin symbolum, cognate with English symbol.

Pronunciation

Noun

symbol c

1. symbol

Declension

Derived terms

References

• symbol in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• symbol in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Welsh

Alternative forms

• sumbol

Etymology

From English symbol, from French symbole, from Latin symbolus, symbolum (“a sign, mark, token, symbol, in Late Latin also a creed”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (súmbolon, “a sign by which one infers something; a mark, token, badge, ticket, tally, check, a signal, watchword, outward sign”).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?s??mb?l/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?s?mb?l/

Usage notes

Being a word borrowed from English derived from Greek, the y in symbol is pronounced /??, ?/ rather than expected /?/. To preserve consistency between pronunciation and spelling, some prefer to spell this word sumbol. Nevertheless, symbol is the more common spelling of the two. See pyramid/puramid, synthesis/sunthesis, system/sustem for similar examples.

Noun

symbol m (plural symbolau, not mutable)

1. symbol

Derived terms

• symbolaeth (“symbolism”)
• symbolaidd (“symbolic”)
• symboleiddio (“symbolise”)
• symbolwr (“symbolist”)
• symbolydd (“symbolist”)

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “symbol”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse rún, which is from Proto-Germanic *r?n? (“letter, literature, secret”), which is borrowed either from Proto-Celtic *r?n? or from the same source as it; compare Dutch rune, German Rune and Swedish runa. Compare roun.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ro?on, IPA^(key): /?u?n/
• Rhymes: -u?n

Noun

rune (plural runes)

1. A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
2. A Finnish or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
3. A letter or mark used as mystical or magic symbol.
4. A verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; a spell or an incantation.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, page 15:

     the fiddle sang and sang as ceaselessly as the chanting cicada without, and the frogs intoning their sylvan runes by the waterside.

5. (obsolete) A roun (secret or mystery).
6. (programming) In the Go programming language, a Unicode code point.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Nuer, Uren, neur-, urne

Danish

Noun

rune c (singular definite runen, plural indefinite runer)

1. rune

Declension

References

• “rune” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Rune, from Old Norse rún.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ryn?/
• Hyphenation: ru?ne
• Rhymes: -yn?

Noun

rune f (plural runen, diminutive runetje n)

1. rune

Derived terms

• runenschrift
• runenteken

Anagrams

• uren
• urne

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse rún.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?yn/
• Rhymes: -yn

Noun

rune f (plural runes)

1. rune

Derived terms

• runologie

Descendants

• ? Turkish: rün

Further reading

• “rune” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -une

Noun

rune f

1. plural of runa

Anagrams

• urne

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *r?na, from Proto-Germanic *r?n?.

Noun

rune f

1. (rare) secretive whispering

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “rune (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse rún.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??n?/
• Rhymes: -??n?

Noun

rune f or m (definite singular runa or runen, indefinite plural runer, definite plural runene)

1. rune

References

• “rune” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

• uren

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse rún.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??n?/
• Rhymes: -??n?

Noun

rune f (definite singular runa, indefinite plural runer, definite plural runene)

1. rune

References

• “rune” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ru?ne/

Noun

r?ne

1. accusative singular of r?n
2. genitive singular of r?n
3. dative singular of r?n
4. nominative plural of r?n
5. accusative plural of r?n

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

rune (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. inflection of runa:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural