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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos).
Pronunciation
Noun
paradīsus m (genitive paradīsī); second declension
- park, orchard, yard,
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) Eden, the paradise home of the first humans
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) Paradise, the abode of the blessed after death
Declension
Second-declension noun.
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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