Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A written pattern of inflection for parts of speech, especially organized into a tabular form.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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noun
A mode or exemplar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, rare, rhetoric
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History
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.
