Isis

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

• Chelidonisis
• Muricellisis

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• Isis at World Register of Marine Species

• enPR: ī′sĭs, IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ.sɪs/, /ˈaɪ.səs/
• Homophone: ISIS

Learned borrowing from Latin Īsis from Ancient Greek Ἶσις (Îsis), from Egyptian

(ꜣst).

Isis

2. (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; 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.
   • 2009, Behemoth, Defiling Morality ov Black God:

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

3. (astronomy) 42 Isis, a main belt asteroid.
4. (uncommon) A female given name from Egyptian or Ancient Greek.
   • 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?'

As a female given name, its popularity peaked in 2005 in the US and 2010 in the Netherlands. Due to its association with 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.

• (astronomy): 42 Isis, ㊷

• 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. The prison was named after the river.

the Isis

2. (UK, especially Oxfordshire, otherwise dated) The River Thames between its source and its confluence with the River Thame at Dorchester on Thames.
   • 1906, Geraldine Mitton, chapter IV, in The Thames‎^[2], London: A. & C. Black:

     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.

Isis

1. Ellipsis of HM Prison Isis.

Isis

1. Alternative letter-case form of ISIS.
   • 2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer‎^[3]:

     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.

• “Isis”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Isis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 3194, column 1.
• “Isis”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Isis”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “Isis”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Isis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• IISS

Isis

1. Isis

• IPA^(key): /ˈisis/, [ˈis̠is̠]
• Rhymes: -isis
• Syllabification^(key): I‧sis
• Hyphenation^(key): I‧sis

Isis

1. Isis (Egyptian goddess)

From English ISIS (“Islamic State in Iraq and Syria”).

Isis

1. ISIS (extremist group)

• ISIS

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

1. Isis

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

1. alternative form of ISIS (“Isis”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.s̬is]

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

1. Isis.
2. A river of Pontus

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

• Īsiacus

• → English: Isis (learned)
• → French: Isis f sg (learned)
• → Spanish: Isis f sg (learned)

• “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, page 860/2.
• Isis in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 461

• IPA^(key): /ˈisis/ [ˈi.sis]
• Rhymes: -isis
• Syllabification: I‧sis

Isis f

1. (Egyptian mythology) Isis