paradoxus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παράδοξος (parádoxos, “contrary to expectation”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa.raˈdok.sus/, [päräˈd̪ɔks̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.raˈdok.sus/, [päräˈd̪ɔksus]

paradoxus (feminine paradoxa, neuter paradoxum); first/second-declension adjective

1. contrary to expectation
2. paradoxical
3. marvellous, strange

   Synonyms: admīrābilis, mīrābilis, mīrus

4. uncharacteristic (as a taxonomic epithet)

First/second-declension adjective.

• paradoxum

paradoxus m (genitive paradoxī); second declension

1. Someone who, contrary to expectation, has won in both the lucta (a wrestling match) and in the pancratium (a gymnastic contest which included both boxing and wrestling) on the same day.

Second-declension noun.

• “paradoxus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• paradoxus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• paradoxus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• paradoxus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016