paradisus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos).

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

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

Second-declension noun.

• paradīsiacus
• paradīsicola

• 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

Borrowings

• “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