Gender Feminine
Usage Greek Mythology, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Slovene, Croatian, Greek
Scripts Ίρις (Greek)
Meaning & History
Means "rainbow" in Greek [1] . Iris was the name of the Greek goddess of the rainbow, also serving as a messenger to the gods. This name can also be given in reference to the word (which derives from the same Greek source) for the iris flower or the coloured part of the eye.
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Iris flower (Iris sanguinea)Iris flower (Iris sanguinea)
Sources & References
- Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry *)=iris, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3D%2A%29%3Diris.
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Entry updated May 26, 2026