παράδεισος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- πᾰρᾰ́δισος (părắdisos)
- Παράδεισος (Parádeisos)
Etymology
An Iranian borrowing, ultimately from Proto-Iranian *paridayjah.[1][2][3]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pa.rá.deː.sos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /paˈra.di.sos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /paˈra.ði.sos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /paˈra.ði.sos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /paˈra.ði.sos/
Noun
πᾰρᾰ́δεισος • (părắdeisos) m (genitive πᾰρᾰδείσου); second declension
- the garden owned by the Persian nobility
- enclosed park, pleasure-ground
- (biblical) Garden of Eden
- the afterlife location of the blessed: paradise
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ πᾰρᾰ́δεισος ho părắdeisos |
τὼ πᾰρᾰδείσω tṑ părădeísō |
οἱ πᾰρᾰ́δεισοι hoi părắdeisoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ πᾰρᾰδείσου toû părădeísou |
τοῖν πᾰρᾰδείσοιν toîn părădeísoin |
τῶν πᾰρᾰδείσων tôn părădeísōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ πᾰρᾰδείσῳ tōî părădeísōi |
τοῖν πᾰρᾰδείσοιν toîn părădeísoin |
τοῖς πᾰρᾰδείσοις toîs părădeísois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν πᾰρᾰ́δεισον tòn părắdeison |
τὼ πᾰρᾰδείσω tṑ părădeísō |
τοὺς πᾰρᾰδείσους toùs părădeísous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πᾰρᾰ́δεισε părắdeise |
πᾰρᾰδείσω părădeísō |
πᾰρᾰ́δεισοι părắdeisoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Πᾰμμένους Πᾰρᾰ́δεισος (Pămménous Părắdeisos)
Descendants
- Greek: παράδεισος (parádeisos)
- → Coptic: ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲇⲓⲥⲟⲥ (paradisos)
- → Latin: paradīsus (see there for further descendants)
- → Arabic: فِرْدَوْس (firdaws) (see there for further descendants) (back-formation from the plural فَرَادِيس (farādīs))
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “παράδεισος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1151
- ^ Hinz, Walther (1975), “*pardaiδa-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 179
- ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007), Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, pages 446, 447
Further reading
- Paradise garden on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “παράδεισος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “παράδεισος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- παράδεισος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G3857 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- παράδεισος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007), Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- park idem, page 593.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paˈra.ði.sos/
Noun
παράδεισος • (parádeisos) m (plural παράδεισοι)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | παράδεισος (parádeisos) | παράδεισοι (parádeisoi) |
| genitive | παραδείσου (paradeísou) | παραδείσων (paradeíson) |
| accusative | παράδεισο (parádeiso) | παραδείσους (paradeísous) |
| vocative | παράδεισε (parádeise) | παράδεισοι (parádeisoi) |
Derived terms
- φορολογικός παράδεισος (forologikós parádeisos)