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Isis en · PROPN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• ī′sĭs
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈaɪ.səs/
• /ˈaɪ.sɪs/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Īsis from Ancient Greek Ἶσις (Îsis), from Egyptian st-t:H8-B1 (ꜣst).

Meanings

1. (Egyptian) 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; also worshiped by (some) Greeks during the Hellenistic period and featured in Greek mythology, and by Romans involved in what was categorized as the Cult of Isis.
   • Grant me profane kiss / Oh Isis, mother ov all / Thy lips like morphine / Teasing my slumbering heart 2009, “Defiling Morality ov Black God”, in Evangelion, performed by Behemoth:
2. 42 Isis, a main belt asteroid.
3. (uncommon) A female given name from Egyptian or Ancient Greek.
   • '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?' 1995, Iain Banks, Whit:
   • Isis had crawled under the center table with its red plush cover with little round balls for fringe. 1924, Zora Neale Hurston, Drenched in Light:

Relateds

Isidian · Isidore · Isiac · Isidora

Synonyms

㊷ · 42 Isis

Translations (31)

el 42 Ίσις (asteroid) · ca Isis (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · cop ⲏⲥⲉ (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · pl Isis (asteroid) · pt Ísis (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · de Isis (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · hi आइसिस (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · ka ისიდა (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · ar إيزيس (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · ru Изи́да (asteroid) · eo Iziso (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · ja イシス (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · cmn 育神星 (asteroid) · el Ίσιδα (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · sk Izis (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · el Ίσις (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · fr Isis (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · la Īsis (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · es Isis (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · sv Isis (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · cs Eset (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · es Isis (asteroid) · ko 이시스 (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · phn 𐤀𐤎 (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · hu Ízisz (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · pl Izys (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · pl Izyda (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · ru Иси́да (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · egy st-t-B1 (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · it Iside (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) · grc Ἶσις (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility)

Isis en · PROPN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• ī′sĭs
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈaɪ.səs/
• /ˈaɪ.sɪs/

Etymology

Back-formation of the Latin Tamesis (“Thames”), from the assumption that the word was derived from a compound of Thame (“A tributary of the Thames”) and Isis. The prison was named after the river.

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of HM Prison Isis.
   alt of HM Prison Isis
2. (UK, qualifier:especially Oxfordshire; otherwise dated; especially Oxfordshire; otherwise dated) The River Thames between its source and its confluence with the River Thame at Dorchester on Thames.
   • They had put in under the dappled shade of an overhanging willow a little down the left bank of the Isis. 1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night:
   • Dorchester is not on the Thames, yet belongs to it certainly, for the Thame, which combines with the Isis to form the Thames, flows past it. 1906, Geraldine Mitton, chapter IV, in The Thames, London: A. & C. Black:

Forms

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Isis en · PROPN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

• ī′sĭs
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈaɪ.səs/
• /ˈaɪ.sɪs/

Meanings

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