Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·persian ·1200s
Paradise
from پردیس (paridaida)
- Meaning
- Walled enclosure, walled garden — the royal Persian pleasure parks.
- Source word
- پردیس (paridaida)
- Route into English
- Old Persian *paridaida* → Greek *paradeisos* → Latin *paradisus* → English. Used in the Septuagint for the Garden of Eden.
- Arrived
- 1200s
English borrows.
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