Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πᾰρᾰ́δισος ‎(parádisos)

Noun

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

1. the garden owned by the Persian nobility
2. garden
3. (biblical) Garden of Eden
4. the afterlife location of the blessed: paradise

Inflection

Descendants

• Coptic: ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲇⲓⲥⲟⲥ ‎(paradisos)
• Greek: παράδεισος ‎(parádeisos)
• Latin: paradīsus (see there for further descendants)

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • park idem, page 593.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παράδεισος ‎(parádeisos)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [paˈraðisɔs]

Noun

παράδεισος • ‎(parádeisos) m ‎(plural παράδεισοι)

1. paradise

Declension

Derived terms

• φορολογικός παράδεισος ‎(forologikós parádeisos)