symbole

le symbole (FR N-M) that which represents something else, either by analogous resemblance, or agreed upon association; person who incarnates something seemingly ideally; (religion) formula by which a religion states its beliefs: Symbolum Nicaeum (The Nicean Creed). Symbols are powerful, secular, sacred, everywhere. Symbols furnish a specific language among a people, without words, making a meaning clear to all who are aware of the symbol. First appears in French in 1380, from Latin symbolum…