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

• Isis (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Isis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Isis (genus) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Isis at World Register of Marine Species

• IPA^(key): /ˈiaɪsəs/, /ˈaɪsɪs/
• Homophone: ISIS

Isis

1. (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.
   • 2009, Behemoth, Defiling Morality ov Black God:

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

2. (astronomy) 42 Isis, a main belt asteroid.
3. (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.

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.

Isis

1. (UK, especially Oxfordshire, otherwise dated) The River Thames between its source and its confluence with the River Thame at Dorchester on Thames.

Isis

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

     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

1. Isis

• IPA^(key): /ˈisis/, [ˈis̠is̠]
• Rhymes: -isis
• Syllabification^(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) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.sis/, [ˈiːs̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.sis/, [ˈiːs̬is]

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

• “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.

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

Isis f

1. (Egyptian mythology) Isis