ἸΣΙΣ, ἰσις
ISIS, isis
Sounds Like: EE-sis
Translations: Isis
From the root: ἸΣΙΣ
Part of Speech: Proper Noun
Explanation: This is a proper noun referring to Isis, the ancient Egyptian goddess of magic, motherhood, and healing. She was widely worshipped throughout the Greco-Roman world, and her cult was particularly popular during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The word is used to identify the goddess herself.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 32:289
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἸΣΙΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΕἸΣἸΔΙΟΝ — little Isis, a little Isis
- ἸΣΙΔΟΣ — of Isis
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