Emblem
late 16th century (as a verb): from Latin emblema ‘inlaid work, raised ornament’, from Greek emblēma ‘insertion’, from emballein ‘throw in, insert’, from em- ‘in’ + ballein ‘to throw’.
wiktionary
From Old French embleme, from Latin emblema(“raised ornaments on vessels, tessellated work, mosaic”), from Ancient Greek ἔμβλημα(émblēma, “an insertion”), from ἐμβάλλειν(embállein, “to put in, to lay on”). Doublet of emblema.
etymonline
emblem (n.)
1580s, "relief, raised ornament on vessels, etc.," from Latin emblema "inlaid ornamental work," from Greek emblema (genitive emblematos) "an insertion," from emballein "to insert," literally "to throw in," from assimilated form of en "in" (see en- (2)) + ballein "to throw" (from PIE root *gwele- "to throw, reach"). Meaning "allegorical drawing or picture" is from 1730, via sense development in French emblème "symbol" (16c.).
