The corpus record — Latin

paradisus

paradisus · m

a park

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Where it lives

Oratio Consulis Ausonii Versibus Rhopalicis 1 · 47.39/10k
De Fide Catholica 4 · 20.75/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 3 · 7.68/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 6 · 5.35/10k
De Paenitentia 2 · 4.91/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 19 · 4.34/10k
De Anima 7 · 2.94/10k
De Monogamia 2 · 2.86/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 6 · 2.65/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 2 · 2.41/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. părădīsus — Lewis & Short

părădīsus, i, m., = para/deisos,

I a park.

I Lit.: vivaria quae nunc vulgus, quos paradei/sous Graeci appellant, Gell. 2, 20, 4: in paradiso, hoc est in viridario, Aug. Serm. 343, n. 1; Vulg. Gen. 2, 8: malorum. an orchard, id. Cant. 4, 13.—

II Transf.

A Paradise, the dwelling-place of the first human beings, the Garden of Eden, Hier. Ep. 52, n. 5: plantatus paradisus in Eden, id. ib. 69, n. 6.—

B Paradise, the abode of the blessed, Tert. Apol. 47; id. Carm. Judic. Dom. 195: Vulg. Ecclus. 44, 16; id. Luc. 23, 43.—

III A town of Cœlesyria, Plin. 5, 23, 19, § 82.—

IV A river in Cilicia, Plin. 5, 27, 22, § 93.

2. paradisus — Walde–Hofmann

paradisus, -i m. „Paradies“ (seit Tert, rom.; paradtsiacus seit Alc. Avit, paradisicola Prud): aus gr. wapdbéwoc m. „Park; Paradies“, dies aus miran, *pardez er pairi-dazza- m.), s. Jacobsohn KZ. 54,257 f, Schwyzer Gr. Gr. 1195... — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. paradisus, p. 1157]

In the wild

Paradisum Tertullian, Adversus Valentinianos 20
paradisum Tertullian, De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 24
paradisi Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.224
paradisum Tertullian, Apologeticum 47.13
paradisum Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.12
paradisi Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 2

6 of 79 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. paradisus (scan p. 505; entry #8218).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. paradisus (scan p. 1157; entry #1956).

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