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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024par•a•dig•mat•ic (par′ə dig mat′ik),USA pronunciation adj. - Linguisticsof or pertaining to a paradigm.
- Linguisticspertaining to a relationship among linguistic elements that can substitute for each other in a given context, as the relationship of sun in The sun is shining to other nouns, as moon, star, or light, that could substitute for it in that sentence, or of is shining to was shining, shone, will shine, etc., as well as to is rising, is setting, etc. Cf. syntagmatic.
Also, par′a•dig•mat′i•cal. - Greek paradeigmatikós, equivalent. to paradeigmat-, stem of parádeigma paradigm + -ikos -ic
- 1655–65
par′a•dig•mat′i•cal•ly, adv. WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024par•a•digm /ˈpærəˌdaɪm, -dɪm/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Grammara set of all the inflected forms of a word based on a single stem or root, as boy, boy's, boys, boys'.
- an example serving as a model; pattern:a paradigm of virtue.
par•a•dig•mat•ic /ˌpærədɪgˈmætɪk/USA pronunciation adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024par•a•digm (par′ə dīm′, -dim),USA pronunciation n. - Grammar
- a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, esp. the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme.
- a display in fixed arrangement of such a set, as boy, boy's, boys, boys'.
- an example serving as a model;
pattern.
- Greek parádeigma pattern (verbid of paradeiknýnai to show side by side), equivalent. to para- para-1 + deik-, base of deiknýnai to show (see deictic) + -ma noun, nominal suffix
- Late Latin paradīgma
- 1475–85
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged mold, standard; ideal, paragon, touchstone.
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