paradoxal
English
Etymology
paradox + -al
Adjective
paradoxal (comparative more paradoxal, superlative most paradoxal)
- (obsolete) paradoxical
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for paradoxal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Catalan
Etymology
paradoxa + -al
Adjective
paradoxal (masculine and feminine plural paradoxals)
- paradoxical
Derived terms
- paradoxalment
Further reading
- “paradoxal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “paradoxal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “paradoxal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “paradoxal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Middle French paradoxal (first attested in 1588), equivalent to paradoxe + -al.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.ʁa.dɔk.sal/
- Rhymes: -al
Audio (Vosges, France) (file) - Homophones: paradoxale, paradoxales
Adjective
paradoxal (feminine paradoxale, masculine plural paradoxaux, feminine plural paradoxales)
- paradoxical
- Antonym: endoxal
- paradox-loving
Derived terms
- paradoxalement
- paradoxalité
Related terms
- paradoxe
- paradoxer
Descendants
- → Romanian: paradoxal
- → Turkish: paradoksal
Further reading
- “paradoxal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /pa.ɾa.dokˈsaw/ [pa.ɾa.dokˈsaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɐ.ɾɐ.dɔˈksal/ [pɐ.ɾɐ.ðɔˈksaɫ]
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
- Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧do‧xal
Adjective
paradoxal m or f (plural paradoxais)
- paradoxical
Derived terms
- paradoxalmente
Romanian
Etymology
From French paradoxal.
Adjective
paradoxal m or n (feminine singular paradoxală, masculine plural paradoxali, feminine and neuter plural paradoxale)
- paradoxical
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative | indefinite | paradoxal | paradoxală | paradoxali | paradoxale | ||
| definite | paradoxalul | paradoxala | paradoxalii | paradoxalele | |||
| genitive/ dative | indefinite | paradoxal | paradoxale | paradoxali | paradoxale | ||
| definite | paradoxalului | paradoxalei | paradoxalilor | paradoxalelor | |||
Swedish
Etymology
paradox + -al
Adjective
paradoxal
- paradoxical
Declension
| Inflection of paradoxal | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | paradoxal | mer paradoxal | mest paradoxal |
| Neuter singular | paradoxalt | mer paradoxalt | mest paradoxalt |
| Plural | paradoxala | mer paradoxala | mest paradoxala |
| Masculine plural3 | paradoxale | mer paradoxala | mest paradoxala |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | paradoxale | mer paradoxale | mest paradoxale |
| All | paradoxala | mer paradoxala | mest paradoxala |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||