Păr'a-dīgm, n.

(păr'a-dĭm), n. [Fr. paradigme, Lat. paradigma, Gr. παράδειγμα, from παραδεικνύναι, to show by the side of, to set up as an example, from παρά, beside, and δεικνύναι, to show.]

1Sense 1. An example; a model. [Obs. and rare.]

Those ideas in the divine understanding being looked upon by these philosophers as the paradigms and patterns of all things. Cudworth.

2Sense 2. (Gram.) An example of a word, as a verb, noun, &c., conjugated, declined, compared, &c., in all its different forms of inflection.