παράδεισος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πᾰρᾰ́δισος (parádisos)
• Παράδεισος (Parádeisos)

Etymology

An Iranian borrowing, ultimately from Proto-Iranian *paridayjah.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pa.rá.deː.sos/ → /paˈra.ði.sos/ → /paˈra.ði.sos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pa.rá.deː.sos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /paˈra.di.sos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /paˈra.ði.sos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /paˈra.ði.sos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /paˈra.ði.sos/

Noun

πᾰρᾰ́δεισος • (parádeisos) m (genitive πᾰρᾰδείσου); second declension

1. the garden owned by the Persian nobility
2. enclosed park, pleasure-ground
3. (biblical) Garden of Eden
4. the afterlife location of the blessed: paradise

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πᾰρᾰ́δεισος; τοῦ πᾰρᾰδείσου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πᾰρᾰ́δεισος ho parádeisos	τὼ πᾰρᾰδείσω tṑ paradeísō	οἱ πᾰρᾰ́δεισοι hoi parádeisoi
Genitive	τοῦ πᾰρᾰδείσου toû paradeísou	τοῖν πᾰρᾰδείσοιν toîn paradeísoin	τῶν πᾰρᾰδείσων tôn paradeísōn
Dative	τῷ πᾰρᾰδείσῳ tôi paradeísōi	τοῖν πᾰρᾰδείσοιν toîn paradeísoin	τοῖς πᾰρᾰδείσοις toîs paradeísois
Accusative	τὸν πᾰρᾰ́δεισον tòn parádeison	τὼ πᾰρᾰδείσω tṑ paradeísō	τοὺς πᾰρᾰδείσους toùs paradeísous
Vocative	πᾰρᾰ́δεισε parádeise	πᾰρᾰδείσω paradeísō	πᾰρᾰ́δεισοι parádeisoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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))

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, 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)

1. paradise

   Antonym: κόλαση (kólasi)

Declension

Declension of παράδεισος

	singular	plural
nominative	παράδεισος •	παράδεισοι •
genitive	παραδείσου •	παραδείσων •
accusative	παράδεισο •	παραδείσους •
vocative	παράδεισε •	παράδεισοι •

Derived terms

• φορολογικός παράδεισος (forologikós parádeisos)