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Ἶσις
Ἶσις
See also: Ίσις
Ancient Greek
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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
- 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
Third declension of Ἶσῐς, Ἴσῐδος
Case / # | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Ἶσῐς |
Genitive | Ἴσῐδος |
Dative | Ἴσῐδῐ |
Accusative | Ἴσῐδᾰ |
Vocative | Ἶσῐ |
Derived terms
- Ἰσίδωρος
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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,014
- Plato Cratylus 401 C
- Apollodorus 2,9
- Plutarch Osiris and Isis 60-62