Definitions

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  • proper noun A male given name
  • proper noun rare A surname of Spanish origin.

Etymologies

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French form of the name of early Spanish saints, from Ancient Greek Ἰσίδωρος (Isidōros), meaning "gift of (the goddess) Isis".

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Examples

  • JC: I was already using the name Isidore, but just amongst my friends when I would make them CDs.

    Karen Shepard: Jeffrey Cain Discusses Isidore's New Album, 'Life Somewhere Else' Karen Shepard 2012

  • New Orleans native Kyra Isidore, 13, (left) snatches the television remote control away from her sister Katlin Isidore, 9, (right) at their temporary home in Beaumont on Wednesday, May 17, 2006.

    Archive 2006-08-01 2006

  • New Orleans native Kyra Isidore, 13, (left) snatches the television remote control away from her sister Katlin Isidore, 9, (right) at their temporary home in Beaumont on Wednesday, May 17, 2006.

    Katrina kids 2006

  • [Footnote: Can they have mistaken the ISIPIONE of the fifth side for the word Isidore?] _Fourth side_.

    Stones of Venice [introductions] John Ruskin 1859

  • Isidore is too sparing of the information which he might have given on the affairs of Spain.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Isidore is a saint, but he never became a bishop; and I half suspect that the pride of Diogenes trampled on the pride of Plato.]

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Together with men such as Isidore of Seville, the Venerable Bede and Ambrose Auperto, of whom I have already spoken in previous catechesis, [Rabanus Maurus] knew how to stay in contact with the great culture of the ancient scholars and the Christian fathers during the centuries of the High Middle Ages.

    Benedict on the Liturgy: "The Faith is not only thought" 2009

  • Exemplary treatises such as Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae explored the visual and aural subtleties of language as inventive byways for thought. 147 Whether visualized as letters and words orthographically transposed to the page of the mind148 or humorously sounded out as puns and onomatopoeia, language was phenomenologically conducive to memorization.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • So yesterday, as I'm driving through the pouring rain which we've dubbed "Isidore" I call the guy again.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2002

  • In - deed, we meet them in miniatures illustrating encyclo - pedias such as Isidore's Etymologiae or Rabanus

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JEAN SEZNEC 1968

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