Ἶσις

See also: Ίσις

Ancient Greek

Ἶσις

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian ꜣst,

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /îː.sis/ → /ˈi.sis/ → /ˈi.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /îː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈi.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.sis/

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

• Greek:
  • Ίσις (Ísis)
  • Ίσιδα (Ísida)
• Latin: Īsis

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