Isis

专有名词
中文释义
发音 ī′sĭs

英文释义

专有名词
  1. An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, worshiped as the ideal mother and wife and as the matron of nature and magic; also worshiped by (some) Greeks during the Hellenistic period and featured in Greek mythology, and by Romans involved in what was categorized as the Cult of Isis. Egyptian
    — Grant me profane kiss / Oh Isis, mother ov all / Thy lips like morphine / Teasing my slumbering heart
  2. The River Thames between its source and its confluence with the River Thame at Dorchester on Thames. UK
    — Dorchester is not on the Thames, yet belongs to it certainly, for the Thame, which combines with the Isis to form the Thames, flows past it.
  3. Ellipsis of HM Prison Isis. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  4. Alternative letter-case form of ISIS. alt-of
    — The terrorist threat is growing, the politicians and intelligence services say, due in part to the degradation of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq and the rising numbers of Isis fighters returning to Europe.
  5. 42 Isis, a main belt asteroid.
  6. A female given name from Egyptian or Ancient Greek. uncommon
    — Isis had crawled under the center table with its red plush cover with little round balls for fringe.

词形变化

the Isis canonical

词源

词源 1
Learned borrowing from Latin Īsis from Ancient Greek Ἶσις (Îsis), from Egyptian st-t:H8-B1 (ꜣst).
词源 2
Back-formation of the Latin Tamesis (“Thames”), from the assumption that the word was derived from a compound of Thame (“A tributary of the Thames”) and Isis. The prison was named after the river.
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