Paradeisos
/pa.raˈdei̯.sos/noun
An Ancient Greek term meaning an enclosed garden or park, later used for a heavenly paradise.
Did you know?The Greek paradeisos was borrowed from an Old Persian word for a royal walled park, and the Septuagint used it to translate Eden’s garden.
Etymological Timeline
Achaemenid Persian period
Old Persian
pairidaeza
“A walled enclosure or royal park”
4th–3rd Century BCE
Ancient Greek
παράδεισος (paradeisos)
“An enclosed park or pleasure garden”
3rd–2nd Century BCE
Koine Greek
παράδεισος (paradeisos)
“A garden of delight; the garden of Eden in the Greek Bible”
1st Century BCE–1st Century CE
Latin
paradisus
“A garden or paradise, especially Eden”
12th Century
Old French
paradis
“Paradise or heaven”
Middle English
English
paradis
“The Garden of Eden, heaven, or a place of perfect delight”
Modern English
English
paradise
“A place or state of supreme happiness or perfection”
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