Isis

Meanings

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.
2. 42 Isis, a main belt asteroid.
3. A female given name from Egyptian or Ancient Greek.

1. The River Thames between its source and its confluence with the River Thame at Dorchester on Thames.

1. Ellipsis of HM Prison Isis.

1. Alternative letter-case form of ISIS.

1. Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isididae, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints.

1. A Salafist group mainly active in Iraq and Syria, where it has proclaimed itself as a (unrecognized) state and later caliphate.
2. Initialism of Israeli Secret Intelligence Services (“a pun on the Salafist group”)
3. Initialism of Institute for Science and International Security.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Īsis from Ancient Greek Ἶσις (Îsis), from Egyptian st-t:H8-B1 (ꜣst).