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paradoxus
paradoxus
Latin
Adjective
paradoxus m (feminine paradoxa, neuter paradoxum); first/second declension
- Contrary to expectation; paradoxical; marvellous, strange.
- (substantive) Someone who, contrary to expectation, has won in both the lucta (a wrestling match) and in the pancratium (a gymnastic contest which included both boxing and wrestling) on the same day.
- uncharacteristic (as a taxonomic epithet)
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | paradoxus | paradoxa | paradoxum | paradoxī | paradoxae | paradoxa | |
| genitive | paradoxī | paradoxae | paradoxī | paradoxōrum | paradoxārum | paradoxōrum | |
| dative | paradoxō | paradoxō | paradoxīs | ||||
| accusative | paradoxum | paradoxam | paradoxum | paradoxōs | paradoxās | paradoxa | |
| ablative | paradoxō | paradoxā | paradoxō | paradoxīs | |||
| vocative | paradoxe | paradoxa | paradoxum | paradoxī | paradoxae | paradoxa | |
Synonyms
- (marvellous, strange): admīrābilis, mīrābilis, mīrus
Derived terms
References
- paradoxus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- PARADOXUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “paradoxus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- paradoxus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016