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pairidaēza
Old Persian · ancient
"walled garden"
described the walled royal gardens of Persian kings
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parádeisos
Greek · ancient
"a park, garden"
Xenophon used it to describe Persian royal parks
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paradisus
Latin · ancient
"the Garden of Eden; heaven"
adopted in Christian texts for the Garden of Eden
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paradis
Old French · c. 1100s
"heaven"
kept the religious sense of a heavenly garden
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paradise
English · c. 1200s
"a place of ideal happiness"
broadened to mean any place of perfect happiness
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