paradigma

From Late Latin paradīgma, from Ancient Greek παράδειγμα (parádeigma, “pattern”). As a loanword in both languages, paradigma typically maintains the Greek plural form in both Latin and English.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pæɹəˈdɪɡma/

paradigma (plural paradigmata)

1. Archaic form of paradigm.
   • 1844, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, The Eclectic Magazine, page 569:

     The volume before us presents, first of all, a paradigma, or specimen sheet, on which each letter of the English alphabet, small and capital, written and printed, is accompanied by its pronunciation in Chinese phonetic signs, as well as in Mandchou letters.

   • 1985, Krijnie Ciggaar, Jos. M.M. Hermans, Byzantium and the Low Countries in the Tenth Century: Aspects of Art and History in the Ottonian Era, →ISBN, page 92:

     […] and it precedes, moreover, together with VII and VIII ὸ ἱερεύς και ἡ ἱέρεια the paradigma τό σκαμνίον. / Further there is nothing to be wondered at, neither as to the paradigma of το σκαμνισν nor as to the priestess: these examples are taken from the famous Ars Grammatica of Donatus, and in particular the Ars minor.

   • 2004, Analecta Romana Instituti Danici, page 247:

     No paradigma prescribed a recto tono recitative.

Borrowed from Late Latin paradīgma, from Ancient Greek παράδειγμα (parádeigma).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pə.ɾəˈðiɡ.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pa.ɾaˈðiɡ.ma]

paradigma m (plural paradigmes)

1. paradigm

• paradigmàtic

• “paradigma”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “paradigma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “paradigma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “paradigma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): [ˈparaɟɪɡma]

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paradigma n

1. paradigm (system of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices)

Borrowed from Latin paradīgma, from Ancient Greek παράδειγμα (parádeigma).

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaː.raːˈdɪx.maː/

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• Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧dig‧ma
• Rhymes: -ɪxmaː

paradigma n (plural paradigmata or paradigma's)

1. (grammar) paradigm (canonical or exhaustive set of inflected forms; set of forms with a common element)
2. (chiefly philosophy and history of sciences) paradigm (framework of concept, practices and theories; exemplar of academic behaviour)
3. exemplar, model, blueprint

• paradigmatisch
• paradigmaverschuiving

From Ancient Greek παράδειγμα (parádeigma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑrɑˌdiɡmɑ/, [ˈpɑ̝rɑ̝ˌdiɡmɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iɡmɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pa‧ra‧dig‧ma
• Hyphenation^(key): para‧digma

paradigma

1. paradigm (model or example)

• “paradigma”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

From Late Latin paradīgma, from Ancient Greek παράδειγμα (parádeigma).

• IPA^(key): /pa.raˈdiɡ.ma/
• Rhymes: -iɡma
• Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧dìg‧ma

paradigma m (plural paradigmi)

1. paradigm

• paradigmatico

• paradigma in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παράδειγμα (parádeigma).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pa.raˈdiːɡ.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pa.raˈd̪iɡ.ma]

paradīgma n (genitive paradīgmatis); third declension

1. pattern, example, paradigm

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

(via Late Latin)

• → Catalan: paradigma
• → English: paradigm
• → French: paradigme m
• → Italian: paradigma
• → Old Ruthenian: пара́дигма n inan (parádihma), пара́диґма (parádigma)
  • Belarusian: парады́гма (paradýhma)
  • Ukrainian: паради́гма (paradýhma)
• → Portuguese: paradigma
• → Romanian: paradigmă
• → Russian: паради́гма f inan (paradígma)
  • → Kazakh:

    Cyrillic script: парадигма (paradigma)

    Latin script: paradigma

    Arabic script: پاراديگما

• → Spanish: paradigma

• “paradigma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• paradigma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “paradigm”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.

• paradigmene

paradigma n

1. definite plural of paradigme

paradigma n

1. definite plural of paradigme

From Late Latin paradīgma (“paradigm”), from Ancient Greek παράδειγμα (parádeigma, “pattern”).

paradigma m (plural paradigmas)

1. paradigm (model or example)

   Synonyms: modelo, padrão

2. (linguistics) paradigm (set of all forms which contain a common element)
3. (computing) a fundamental style of programming

• (fundamental style of programming): declarativo, estruturado, funcional, imperativo, orientação a objetos

• paradigmal
• paradigmático

• “paradigma”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /paradǐɡma/
• Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧dig‧ma

paradìgma f (Cyrillic spelling парадѝгма)

1. paradigm (system of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices)

• paradìgmatskī

Borrowed from Late Latin paradīgma, from Ancient Greek παράδειγμα (parádeigma).

• IPA^(key): /paɾaˈdiɡma/ [pa.ɾaˈð̞iɣ̞.ma]
• Rhymes: -iɡma
• Syllabification: pa‧ra‧dig‧ma

paradigma m (plural paradigmas)

1. paradigm

• “paradigma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024