Ἶσις

See also: Ίσις

Ancient Greek
Ἶσις

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian ꜣst,

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Ἶσῐς • (Îsis) f (genitive Ῑ̓́σῐδος); third declension

  1. Isis
    (Ίὼ)...ἱδρύσατο δὲ ἄγαλμα Δήμητρος, ἣν ἐκάλεσαν Ἶσιν Αἰγύπτιοι, καὶ τὴν Ίὼ Ἶσιν ὁμοίως προσηγόρευσαν.
    (Io)...founded a "statue" (temple) of Demeter, whom the Egyptians called Isis, and they also called Io Isis (Apollodorus 2, 9).

Inflection
Third declension of ἡ Ἶσῐς; τῆς Ῑ̓́σῐδος (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Ἶσῐς
hē Îsis
Genitive τῆς Ῑ̓́σῐδος
tês Ī́sidos
Dative τῇ Ῑ̓́σῐδῐ
têi Ī́sidi
Accusative τὴν Ῑ̓́σῐδᾰ
tḕn Ī́sida
Vocative Ἶσῐς
Îsis
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms
  • Ῑ̓σῐ́δωρος (Īsídōros)

Descendants

References
  • Ἶσις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Ἶσις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,014
  • Plato Cratylus 401 C
  • Apollodorus 2,9
  • Plutarch Osiris and Isis 60-62
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