IHS
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English
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- (institute, US) Initialism of Institute for Human Studies.
- (institute, US) Initialism of Institute for Humanist Studies.
- (service, US) Initialism of Indian Health Service, a US health agency.
- (Christianity) Monogram of ΙΗϹΟYϹ (IĒSOYS), the Greek form of Jesus.
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[edit]German
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References
[edit]IHS on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Latin
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Usage notes
[edit]- Commonly seen on Christian churches.
Etymology 2
[edit]The reference to Jesus is from the first three letters of Jesus' name in Koine Greek, ΙΗΣΟΥΣ (IĒSOUS), arising perhaps circa 14th century. The interpretation as an initialism of Iēsūs Hominum Salvātor (“Jesus, saviour of men”) is apparently a later back-formation when the Greek was no longer remembered. (See Christogram on Wikipedia.)
Proper noun
[edit]IHS m
- (Christianity) initialism of Iēsūs Hominum Salvātor (“Jesus Savior of Men)”)
Alternative forms
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- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- American English
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- English orthographic borrowings from Ancient Greek
- German lemmas
- German nouns
- Austrian German
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- Latin lemmas
- Latin phrases
- Latin initialisms
- Latin terms derived from Koine Greek
- Latin back-formations
- Latin proper nouns
- Latin masculine nouns
- la:Christianity