emoticon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Latin moveō
Latin ēmoveō
Vulgar Latin *exmovēre
Old French esmovoir
Middle French esmouvoir
Middle French emotionbor.
English emotion
Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn)der.
Latin īcōnbor.
English icon
blend
English emoticon
Blend of emotion + icon. Unrelated to emoji.
Inflected forms:
form: emoticons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A graphical representation of a particular emotion of the writer, used especially in SMS, email, or other electronic communication.
pos: noun
examples: A remark intended humorously is often indicated by the letter G in parentheses, for "grin," or by a sideways happy face built from punctuation marks. Such symbols are known as emoticons.
In a 4 by 2 experimental procedure, :) ;) :( or no emoticon were inserted alternately in simulated e-mail message mock-ups
The range of interpretations was surprising broad, for instance the emoticon (-.-) had 16 possible interpretations
When receiving a message like “We need to talk :(,” the emoticon implies that the conversation will involve bad or sad news. But a message like “I’m going to kill you :)” is most likely sarcastic. With text communication, in particular, it can be incredibly hard to understand intentionality — especially when there’s humor and sarcasm involved. Because of this, emoji and emoticons can be extremely useful to attach an element of feeling and emotion to the message.
gloss: A graphical representation of a particular emotion of the writer, used especially in SMS, email, or other electronic communication.
pos: noun
examples: In addition to placing emoticons by clicking icons in the pop-up panel shown in Figure 4-2, you can enter the text representation in your text chat window. For example, to show the image of the emoticon with sunglasses, you enter (cool).
Related words: Emoticons appendix
emotag
emoji
kaomoji
Derived words: assicon
emoticonic
emoticonized
emoticonlike
kineticon
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: սմայլիկ
roman: smaylik
lang: Armenian
word: զմայլիկ
roman: zmaylik
lang: Catalan
word: emoticona
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 表情符號 /表情符号
roman: biǎoqíng fúhào
lang: Danish
word: emotikon
lang: Danish
word: smiley
lang: Dutch
word: emoticon
lang: Esperanto
word: miensimbolo
lang: Finnish
word: hymiö
lang: French
word: émoticône
lang: French
word: émoticone
lang: French
word: binette
lang: French
word: frimousse
lang: Galician
word: emoticona
lang: Georgian
word: სიცილაკი
roman: sicilaḳi
lang: German
word: Emoticon
lang: Hebrew
word: רִגְשׁוֹן
roman: rigshón
lang: Hebrew
word: פַּרְצוּפוֹן
roman: partsufón
lang: Hungarian
word: emotikon
lang: Hungarian
word: hangulatjel
lang: Indonesian
word: emotikon
lang: Irish
word: straoiseog
lang: Italian
word: faccina
lang: Japanese
word: エモティコン
roman: emotikon
lang: Japanese
word: 顔文字
roman: kaomoji
lang: Japanese
word: 絵文字
roman: emoji
lang: Kazakh
word: күлегеш
roman: külegeş
lang: Kazakh
word: өңтаңба
roman: öñtañba
lang: Kazakh
word: эмотикон
roman: émotikon
lang: Korean
word: 이모티콘
roman: imotikon
lang: Korean
word: 통보문그림기호
roman: tongbomun'geurimgiho
lang: Ligurian
word: facìn
lang: Ligurian
word: morìn
lang: Māori
word: tohukare
lang: Persian
word: شکلک
roman: šeklak
lang: Polish
word: emotikona
lang: Polish
word: emotikon
lang: Polish
word: emotka
lang: Portuguese
word: emoticon
lang: Romanian
word: emoticon
lang: Russian
word: сма́йлик
roman: smájlik
lang: Russian
word: эмотико́н
roman: emotikón
lang: Russian
word: смайл
roman: smajl
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: emotikon
lang: Slovene
word: smeško
lang: Slovene
word: čustvenček
lang: Spanish
word: emoticón
lang: Spanish
word: emoticono
lang: Swedish
word: smilis
lang: Swedish
word: smilgubbe
lang: Swedish
word: smajlis
lang: Swedish
word: emotikon