Isis

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

Isis f

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

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

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• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪsəs/, /ˈaɪsɪs/

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἶσις (Îsis).

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.
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?'

• Isiac
• Isidian
• Isidora
• Isidore

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.

Isis

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

Isis

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

     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.

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

Isis

1. Isis

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

Isis f (genitive Isis' or Isis)

1. Isis.

Isis f (genitive Isis' or Isis)

1. Alternative form of ISIS; Isis.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἶσῐς (Îsis).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.sis/, [ˈiː.sɪs]

Īsis f (genitive Īsis or Īsidis); third declension

1. Isis.
2. A river of Pontus

• Īsiacus

• 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

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈi.sis]

Isis f

1. (Egyptian mythology) Isis.