Para-digma,

gr. (deiknynai, vise), et, pl. -mata el. -mer, (Gram.) Forbilled, Mønsterord, Mønster; Exempel, Efterdømme; para-digmatisk, som tjener til Forbilled eller Mønster, lærende ved Exempler (f. Ex. para-digmatisk Methode); para-digmatisere, lære ved fremstillede Exempler; Para-digmatiker, en, Forfatter af fromme Menneskers Levnedsbeskrivelse.

L. Mayer: Fremmedordbog

PARADIGM,

an example, model. (F., -L., -Gk.) Phillips ed. 1706, gives paradigma, the Lat. form -F. paradigme (Littré). -Lat. paradigma. -Gk. paradeigma, a pattern, model; in grammar, an example of declension, &c. -Gk. paradeiknymi, I exhibit, lit. shew by the side of. -Gk. para, beside; and deiknymi, I point out. Se Para- and Diction.

Skeat: English Etymological Dictionary

[The Structure of Scientific Revolution by Thomas Kuhn] is notable for having spawned the trendy term paradigm. [...]

The keystone of [Kuhn's] model was the concept of a paradigm. Paradigm, pre-Kuhn, referred merely to an example that serves an educational purpose; amo, amas, amat, for instance, is a paradigm for teaching conjugations in Latin. Kuhn used the term to refer to a collection of procedures of ideas that instruct scienticts, implicitly, what to believe and how to work. Most scientists never question the paradigm. They solve puzzles, problems whose solutions reinforce and extend the scope of the paradigm rather than challenge it. [...]

As for the word paradigm, Kuhn conceded that it had become "hopelessly overused" and was "out of control." Like a virus, the word spread beyond the history and philosophy of science and infected the intellectual community at large, when it came to signify virtually any dominant idea. [...] The low point came during the Bush administration, when White House officials introduced an economic plan called "the New Paradigm" (which was really just warmed-over Reaganomics).

Kuhn admitted, again, that the fault was partly his, since in Structure he had not defined paradigm as crisply as he might have. At one point paradigm referred to an archetypal experiment, such as Galileo's legendary (and probably apocryphal) dropping of weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Elsewhere the term referred to "the entire constellation of beliefs" that binds a scientific community together. [...]

John Hogan: The End of Science