Ἶσις
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See also: Ίσις
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /îː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈi.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.sis/
Proper noun
[edit]Ἶσῐς • (Îsis) f (genitive Ῑ̓́σῐδος or Ῑ̓́σεως); third declension
- (Egyptian mythology) Isis
- Marble stela found in Piraeus :
- ἐν ᾧ ίδρύσονται τὸ ἱερὸν τῆς Ἀφροδίτης καθάπερ καὶ οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι τὸ τῆς Ἴσιδος ἱερὸν ἵδρυνται
- en hôi ídrúsontai tò hieròn tês Aphrodítēs katháper kaì hoi Aigúptioi tò tês Ísidos hieròn hídruntai
- in which they will build for themselves the temple of Aphrodite exactly as the Egyptians have built for themselves the temple of Isis
- ἐν ᾧ ίδρύσονται τὸ ἱερὸν τῆς Ἀφροδίτης καθάπερ καὶ οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι τὸ τῆς Ἴσιδος ἱερὸν ἵδρυνται
- Apollodorus, Library 2.1.3:
- ἱδρύσατο δὲ ἄγαλμα Δήμητρος, ἣν ἐκάλεσαν Ἶσιν Αἰγύπτιοι, καὶ τὴν Ἰὼ Ἶσιν ὁμοίως προσηγόρευσαν.
- hidrúsato dè ágalma Dḗmētros, hḕn ekálesan Îsin Aigúptioi, kaì tḕn Iṑ Îsin homoíōs prosēgóreusan.
- Translation by Sir James George Frazer
- And she set up an image of Demeter, whom the Egyptians called Isis, and Io likewise they called by the name of Isis.
- ἱδρύσατο δὲ ἄγαλμα Δήμητρος, ἣν ἐκάλεσαν Ἶσιν Αἰγύπτιοι, καὶ τὴν Ἰὼ Ἶσιν ὁμοίως προσηγόρευσαν.
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ Ἶσῐς hē Îsis | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς Ῑ̓́σῐδος tês Ī́sidos | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ Ῑ̓́σῐδῐ têi Ī́sidi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν Ῑ̓́σῐδᾰ tḕn Ī́sida | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Ἶσῐς Îsis | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- Ῑ̓σῐ́δωρος (Īsídōros)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “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
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