Ἶσις
See also: Ίσις
Ancient Greek
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Isis.svg/180px-Isis.svg.png)
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /îː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈi.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.sis/
Proper noun
Ἶσῐς • (Îsis) f (genitive Ῑ̓́σῐδος); third declension
- 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).
- (Ίὼ)...ἱδρύσατο δὲ ἄγαλμα Δήμητρος, ἣν ἐκάλεσαν Ἶσιν Αἰγύπτιοι, καὶ τὴν Ίὼ Ἶσιν ὁμοίως προσηγόρευσαν.
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ Ἶσῐς hē Îsis | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς Ῑ̓́σῐδος tês Ī́sidos | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ Ῑ̓́σῐδῐ têi Ī́sidi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν Ῑ̓́σῐδᾰ tḕn Ī́sida | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Ἶσῐς Îsis | ||||||||||||
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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[1], 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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