Other forms: paradigms
A paradigm is the whole framework of thinking a field shares. The dominant paradigm, a paradigm shift, within that paradigm.
Thomas Kuhn gave the word its modern sense in 1962: normal science works inside a paradigm until anomalies pile up and a paradigm shift replaces it. Paradigm shift is now used so loosely that it often means any change at all. In grammar, a paradigm is the full set of forms of a word. Note that the g is silent in paradigm and sounded in paradigmatic.
1nounparadigmThe whole framework of thinking a field shares.
“Einstein's theory changed the whole paradigm of physics.”
2nounfullThe full set of forms of a word.
“Students of Latin learn the paradigm of each verb by heart.”
paradigm is a framework or pattern.
Greek paradeigma means a pattern or example, from paradeiknynai, to show side by side. The scientific sense is Kuhn's, from 1962.
Proto-Indo-European
*deyḱ-
Ancient Greek
παράδειγμα — pattern
Latin
paradīgma
Middle English
paradygme
English, today
paradigm
Built from
From Middle English paradygme, from Latin paradīgma, from Ancient Greek παράδειγμα (“pattern”), from παραδείκνυμι (“I show [beside] or compare”) + -μα. a doublet of paradigma.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Academic English