Ancient Greek

Ἶσις

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ísis/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ísis/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ísis/

Proper noun

Ἶσις • ‎(Îsis) f ‎(genitive Ἴσιδος); 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

Derived terms

• Ἰσίδωρος

Descendants

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

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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,014
• Plato Cratylus 401 C
• Apollodorus 2,9
• Plutarch Osiris and Isis 60-62