Isis vs Itis - What's the difference?
isis | itis |
(Egyptian mythology) 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.
(UK, Oxford) The River Thames.
(astronomy) Short for , a main belt asteroid.
(rare) (female)
* 1924 , Zora Neale Hurston, Drenched in Light :
* 1995 , Iain Banks, Whit :
(informal) A medical condition accompanied by inflammation.
* 1973 , April 16, “
(informal, Caribbean) The feeling of sleepiness after eating a heavy meal, usually the itis.
As a proper noun isis
is a sunni jihadist group active in iraq and syria, where it has proclaimed an (unrecognized) state.As a noun itis is
(informal) a medical condition accompanied by inflammation.isis
English
(wikipedia Isis)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Isis had crawled under the center table with its red plush cover with little round balls for fringe.
- 'Beloved Isis ,' Elias grinned, 'would you kindly cast some light into the poor occluded mind of our brother here on the matter of the co-essential nature of the body and the soul?'
Etymology 2
itis
English
(wikipedia itis)Noun
(es)Scorecard”, Robert W. Creamer ed., in Sports Illustrated
- “. . . Arthritis, tendinitis and all those other itises will eventually catch up with you.”