paradigmata
- 1Plural of paradigm. Rare; the usual plural is paradigms.
Over the centuries, the paradigmata of these Latin nouns grew irregular and hard to reconstruct.
The study contrasts the research paradigmata of laboratory scientists with the habits of working clinicians.
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A learned plural that keeps its classical ending, used beside the ordinary paradigms. It belongs to scholarly prose: in grammar, for the full sets of a word's inflected forms, and in philosophy and the study of science, for frameworks of thought, as when writers discuss Kuhn or Wittgenstein. Outside such writing, paradigms is the natural choice.
- 2Plural of paradigma.
These paradigmata, these basic visions of life’s meaning, become the foundations for developing levels of value consciousness, as well as the concrete integrating principle of a world-view.
1965, F. Warren Rempel, The Role of Value in Karl Mannheim’s Sociology of KnowledgeNote
Here the plural is counted from paradigma, an archaic singular that keeps the classical shape of paradigm. The meaning does not move at all: these paradigmata are basic visions or patterns of thought, just as with the plural of paradigm. Only the singular behind them is older, and the old form survives mainly in this plural.
paradigmata is a form of paradigm
paradigm, noun: A pattern or way of doing something, especially a framework of ideas and beliefs through which something is understood. Full entry
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- paradigm → paradigmata: irregular plural (no -s)
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