paradisus
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pa.raˈdiː.sus/, [päräˈd̪iːs̠ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pa.raˈdi.sus/, [päräˈd̪iːs̬us]
Noun
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
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
- paradīsiacus
- paradīsicola
Descendants
- Italian: paradiso
- Old French: parvis, parevis
- French: parvis
- → Middle English: parvis, parvise, parvys
- English: parvis, parvise, pervis
- West Iberian
- Old Portuguese: parayso
- Galician: paraíso
- Portuguese: paraíso
- Spanish: paraíso
- → Chavacano: paraiso
- → Cebuano: paraiso
- → Ilocano: paraiso
- → Tagalog: paraiso
- → Waray-Waray: paraiso
- Old Portuguese: parayso
- Borrowings
- → Albanian: parajsa, parriz
- → Catalan: paradís
- → Friulian: paradîs
- → Hungarian: paradicsom (via paradīsum (accusative))
- → Middle Irish: pardus
- Irish: parthas
- → Occitan: paradís
- → Old French: paradis
- Middle French: paradis
- French: paradis
- → Late Old Dutch: paradīs
- Middle Dutch: paradijs
- Dutch: paradijs
- Afrikaans: paradys
- Negerhollands: paradis
- → Papiamentu: paradeis, paradijs
- West Frisian: paradys
- Dutch: paradijs
- Middle Dutch: paradijs
- → Late Old English: paradīs (see there for further descendants)
- Middle French: paradis
- → Old High German: paradīs
- Middle High German: paradīse
- German: Paradies
- Vilamovian: paradīs
- Middle High German: paradīse
- → Old Norse: paradís
- Danish: paradis
- Faroese: paradis
- Icelandic: paradís
- Norwegian: paradis
- Swedish: paradis
- → Finnish: paratiisi
- → Romanian: paradis
- → Welsh: paradwys
References
- “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