Isis Definition

īsĭs
noun
The goddess of fertility, sister and wife of Osiris, typically represented with a cow's horns surrounding a solar (or lunar) disk.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
Isis
Plural:
isises

Origin of Isis

  • Latin Īsis from Greek from Egyptian ’st

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Isis Sentence Examples

  • One Greek writer, Achemachus, identified Proserpine with the Egyptian Isis.'

  • Camden gave currency to the derivation of the word from the combination of the names Thame and Isis.

  • Excavation has brought to light figurines of the Egyptian Osiris, Isis, Ptah, Anubis and especially Bes.

  • The deities of different local centres may be identified; many such combinations took place in Egypt, and Isis in late days served to her votaries as the unitary principle which appeared in one figure after another of whole pantheons.

  • In the cult of Isis lamps were lighted by day.

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Words Starting With

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Words Starting With I and Ending With S

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