Latin

Noun

paradīsus m ‎(genitive paradīsī); second declension

1. park, orchard
2. (ecclesiastical) Eden, the paradise home of the first humans
3. (ecclesiastical) Paradise, the abode of the blessed after death

Inflection

Second declension.

Related terms

• paradīsiacus
• paradīsicola

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “paradisus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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