paradisus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *paridayjah.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) 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 Galician-Portuguese: parayso
  • Galician: paraíso
  • Portuguese: paraíso
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: paraíso
    • → Chavacano: paraiso
    • → Cebuano: paraiso
    • → Ilocano: paraiso
    • → Tagalog: paraiso
    • → Waray-Waray: paraiso
• → Albanian: parajsa, parriz
• → Catalan: paradís
• → Friulian: paradîs
• → Hungarian: paradicsom
• → Occitan: paradís
• → Old French: paradis
  • Middle French: paradis
    • French: paradis
      • → Irish: parthas
  • → Late Old Dutch: paradīs
    • Middle Dutch: paradijs
      • Dutch: paradijs
        • Afrikaans: paradys
        • Negerhollands: paradis
        • → Papiamentu: paradeis, paradijs
        • → West Frisian: paradys
  • → Late Old English: paradīs
    • Middle English: paradis, paradise, paradys
      • English: paradise
• → Old High German: paradīs
  • Middle High German: paradīse
    • German: Paradies
• → Old Norse: paradís
  • Danish: paradis
  • Faroese: paradis
  • Icelandic: paradís
  • Norwegian: paradis
  • Swedish: paradis
    • → Estonian: paradiis
    • → 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