paradisus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pa.raˈdiː.sus/, [päräˈd̪iːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pa.raˈdi.sus/, [päräˈd̪iːs̬us]
Noun edit
paradīsus m (genitive paradīsī); second declension
- park, orchard
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) Eden, the paradise home of the first humans
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) Paradise, the abode of the blessed after death
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | paradīsus | paradīsī |
| Genitive | paradīsī | paradīsōrum |
| Dative | paradīsō | paradīsīs |
| Accusative | paradīsum | paradīsōs |
| Ablative | paradīsō | paradīsīs |
| Vocative | paradīse | paradīsī |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Italian: paradiso
- Old French: parvis, parevis
- Old Piedmontese: parays
- West Iberian
- → Albanian: parajsa, parriz
- → Catalan: paradís
- → Friulian: paradîs
- → Proto-West Germanic: *paradīs (see there for further descendants)
- → Hungarian: paradicsom (learned) (via paradīsum (accusative))
- → Middle Irish: pardus
- Irish: parthas
- → Occitan: paradís
- → Old French: paradis
- → Old Norse: paradís
- → Romanian: paradis
- → Welsh: paradwys
References edit
- “paradisus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- paradisus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- paradisus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “paradisus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “paradisus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin