A table that lists the inflected forms of a word. It serves as a model for other words that belong to the same declension or conjugation. The paradigm for the first declension Latin noun puella, girl. Feminine nouns of this declension take the indicated singular and plural endings for the corresponding case.

Etymology: The word derives via Late Latin from the Greek paradeigma, pattern or model (from para, beside + deiknynai, to show; thus it literally (kind-of) means "to show side by side").

Oxford English Dictionary: Its first OED citation is from 1599: "Now it remaineth to giue a Paradigma or example of euery Coniugation of their Moodes." (Minsheu Span. Gram. 20)

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