paradisus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa.raˈdiː.sus/, [päräˈd̪iːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.raˈdi.sus/, [päräˈd̪iːs̬us]

Noun

paradīsus m (genitive paradīsī); second declension

1. park, orchard
2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Eden, the paradise home of the first humans
3. (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
• Old Piedmontese: parays
• West Iberian
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: parayso
    • Galician: paraíso
    • Portuguese: paraíso
  • Spanish: paraíso (see there for further descendants)
• → 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
  • Middle French: paradis
    • French: paradis
      • → Niuean: paratiso
      • → Russian: паради́з (paradíz)
      • → Tokelauan: palatiho
• → Old Norse: paradís
  • Danish: paradis
  • Faroese: paradis
  • Icelandic: paradís
  • Norwegian: paradis
  • Swedish: paradis (see there for further descendants)
• → 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