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paradigma en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /paɹ.əˈdɪɡ.ma/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˌpɛr.əˈdɪɡ.mə/ (General-American)

Etymology

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. Doublet of paradigm.

Meanings

1. (rare) A written pattern of inflection for parts of speech, especially organized into a tabular form.
   • 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. 1844, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, The Eclectic Magazine, page 569:
2. (broadly, rare, rhetoric) A mode or exemplar.
   • No paradigma prescribed a recto tono recitative. 2004, Analecta Romana Instituti Danici, page 247:
   • […]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. 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:

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