English and Scottish: from Old French paradis, denoting
someone who lived by a park or pleasure garden, especially one
attached to a monastery, nunnery, or cathedral.Americanized form of French Paradis or Italian
Paradiso.Americanized form of a Greek family name such as
Paradissis, Paradissiadis, or Paradissopoulos,
from a personal name based on ancient Greek paradeisos
‘paradise’, ‘pleasure garden’, from Persian pairidaesa ‘royal
park’.Americanized form of German Paradies, a German
topographic name and house name and an ornamental Ashkenazic Jewish
name, from Middle High German paradis(e), German
Paradies ‘paradise’, ‘park’, ‘pleasure garden’ (see 1 and 3).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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