Isis

See also: ISIS, Ísis, and isis

Translingual

Etymology

Latin Īsis, the goddess Isis, from Ancient Greek Ἶσῐς (Îsis), from Egyptian (ꜣst).

Proper noun

Isis f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Isididae – typical deep-sea bamboo corals.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Cnidaria - phylum; Anthozoa - class; Alcyonaria - subclass; Alcyonacea - order; Calcaxonia - suborder; Isididae - family

References

• Isis (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Isis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Isis (genus) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Isis at World Register of Marine Species

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English

Isis as shown in Egyptian art

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiaɪsəs/, /ˈaɪsɪs/
• Homophone: ISIS

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἶσις (Îsis), from Egyptian (ꜣst).

Proper noun

Isis

1. (Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, worshiped as the ideal mother and wife and as the matron of nature and magic.
   • 2009, Behemoth, Defiling Morality ov Black God

     Grant me profane kiss / Oh Isis, mother ov all / Thy lips like morphine / Teasing my slumbering heart

2. (astronomy) 42 Isis, a main belt asteroid.
3. (uncommon) A female given name
   • 1924, Zora Neale Hurston, Drenched in Light:

     Isis had crawled under the center table with its red plush cover with little round balls for fringe.

   • 1995, Iain Banks, Whit:

     'Beloved Isis,' Elias grinned, 'would you kindly cast some light into the poor occluded mind of our brother here on the matter of the co-essential nature of the body and the soul?'

Usage notes

As a female given name, its popularity peaked in 2005 in the US and 2010 in the Netherlands. Due to its association with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (commonly abbreviated as ISIS), the name quickly fell out of favor and is now rarely used. [1]

In some depictions of the Egyptian goddess, she is sometimes renamed as Eset.

Related terms

• Isiac
• Isidian
• Isidora
• Isidore

Translations

ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility

• Catalan: Isis (ca) f
• Coptic: ⲏⲥⲉ (ēse)
• Czech: Eset
• Egyptian: (ꜣst f)
• French: Isis (fr) f
• Georgian: ისიდა (isida)
• German: Isis (de) f
• Greek: Ίσις (el) f (Ísis), Ίσιδα (el) f (Ísida)

  Ancient: Ἶσις f (Îsis)

• Hungarian: Ízisz
• Italian: Iside (it) f
• Japanese: イシス (Ishisu)
• Latin: Īsis f
• Polish: Izyda (pl) f, Izis (pl) f (obsolete)
• Portuguese: Ísis (pt) f
• Russian: Иси́да (ru) f (Isída)
• Slovak: Izis f
• Spanish: Isis f
• Swedish: Isis (sv) c

asteroid

• Greek: 42 Ίσις f (42 Ísis)
• Russian: (42) Изи́да (ru) f ((42) Izída)

• Spanish: (42) Isis f

Etymology 2

Back-formation from Tamesis (“Latin name for Thames”), from the assumption that the word was derived from a compound of Thame (“A tributary of the Thames”) and Isis.

Proper noun

Isis

1. (UK, especially Oxfordshire, otherwise dated) The River Thames between its source and its confluence with the River Thame at Dorchester on Thames.

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Isis

1. Alternative letter-case form of ISIS
   • 2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer‎^[2]:

     The terrorist threat is growing, the politicians and intelligence services say, due in part to the degradation of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq and the rising numbers of Isis fighters returning to Europe.

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Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἶσις (Îsis, “Isis”), from Egyptian (ꜣst).

Proper noun

Isis

1. Isis

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German

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek Ἶσις (Îsis, “Isis”), from Egyptian (ꜣst).

Proper noun

Isis f (proper noun, genitive Isis' or Isis)

1. Isis

Declension

Declension of Isis [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Isis	die	Isisen
genitive	einer	der	Isis', Isis	der	Isisen
dative	einer	der	Isis	den	Isisen
accusative	eine	die	Isis	die	Isisen

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Isis f (proper noun, genitive Isis' or Isis)

1. Alternative form of ISIS (“Isis”)

Declension

Declension of Isis [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Isis	die	Isisen
genitive	einer	der	Isis', Isis	der	Isisen
dative	einer	der	Isis	den	Isisen
accusative	eine	die	Isis	die	Isisen

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἶσῐς (Îsis), itself from Egyptian (ꜣst).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.sis/, [ˈiːs̠ɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.sis/, [ˈiːs̬is]

Noun

Īsis f sg (genitive Īsis or Īsidis); third declension

1. Isis.
2. A river of Pontus

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem or imparisyllabic non-i-stem; two different stems), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Īsis
Genitive	Īsis Īsidis
Dative	Īsī Īsidī
Accusative	Īsem Īsidem
Ablative	Īse Īside
Vocative	Īsis

Related terms

• Īsiacus

References

• “Isis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Isis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin Īsis, from Ancient Greek Ἶσις (Îsis), from Egyptian (ꜣst).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈisis/, [ˈi.sis]

Proper noun

Isis f

1. (Egyptian mythology) Isis